Re: Wildcard types

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 03:23

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[someone claims that wildcard expansion is the shell's job]

In article <Nov.16.18.45.09.1990.11701@pilot.njin.net> limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
> ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX!  ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX!  ALL THE WORLD
> IS NOT UNIX!  ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX!  ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX!

That's nice. Here, swallow the nice pill.

Feeling calmer?

I get the feeling that some people have a knee-jerk reaction to anything UNIX
does just because it's something UNIX does. One of these things is wildcards.
Another is filename expansion in the shell. I've even had people (back before
MS-DOS got them) claim hierarchical directories were a bad idea.

How about linefeed-seperated files? STREAM-LF files are only known in UNIX
and AmigaOS that I know of. Is that a bad idea, now?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 18 Nov 90 03:23:02 GMT
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