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Started by Richard L. Carreiro
Sat, 08 Dec 1990 08:25
Shells
Author: Richard L. Carreiro
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 08:25
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 08:25
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Are there any shells for the amiga (either commercial or freely redist.) that actually do the wildcard expansion, rather than the program having to do it? In other words, if I have a directory containing: foo.1 foo.2 foo.txt and I have written a SAS/C program which simply scans argc and argv and prints out all its command line arguments (call it arg, say) and I do: > arg foo.? *.txt in that shell, then foo.1 foo.2 foo.txt will be the output of my program. Are there any such beasties? -- Rich Carreiro The "War on Drugs" ARPA: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu is merely a smokescreen for UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!mit-athena!rlcarr The War on the Constitution BITNET: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu JITTLOV FOREVER!
Re: Shells
Author: Loren Rittle
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 18:59
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 18:59
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>There is one limitations however....when passing parameters to commands,
>AmigaDos (1.3 and below) limits you to 256 characters on the "command line".
WShell v1.2 gets around this limitation of the CLI, not AmigaOS (1.3 and
below).
--
``In short, this is the absolute coolest computer device ever invented!''
-Tom Denbo speaking about The VideoToaster by NewTek
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Loren J. Rittle lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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