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Article #6708Re: Wildcard types
From: Hendrik Groeneveld
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 17:14
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 17:14
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In article <15620@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <2439@trlluna.trl.oz> aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan) writes:
>>Also, they are not interpreted by the shell, so you can never be
>>sure in advance if the program you were invoking supported them.
>
>Not having wildcard expansion for every command is a *feature*.
>(I can say this because the dos wildcard routines
> are available via standard DOS calls in 2.0 :-) )
>
Adding wildcard expansion as a DOS call is an improvement, but
expansion is the shells job. If I don't want somthing expanded
by the shell, I'll quote it. IMHO, if the shell doesn't do wildcard
expansion, it's a *bug*, not a feature. :-(
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!uw-beaver!fluke!gtisqr!rick From: rick@gtisqr.uucp (Hendrik Groeneveld) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Message-ID: <1990Nov16.171451.5668@gtisqr.uucp> Date: 16 Nov 90 17:14:51 GMT References: <15517@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2439@trlluna.trl.oz> <15620@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: rick@gtisqr.UUCP (Hendrik Groeneveld) Organization: Global Tech Int'l Inc. Lines: 21