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From: rap@peck.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Resident .. wildcards ??
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Date: 3 Aug 89 20:37:31 GMT
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In article <8908030823.AA24551@jade.berkeley.edu> LAUL@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Gorrie) writes:
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>I would instead like to make the whole C dir RESIDENT  , with one command
>(I don't want to have to RES every single program in the C dir one at a time.)

The command in S:, named SPAT, is what you could use to make a command
that does not accept a wildcard do wildcard things. SPAT is an execute
script with the script-protection-bit set.

If S: is in your PATH, then this command should do what you have requested.
Make sure that everything in C: is RESIDENT-able in the first place, or
perhaps separate your C directory into a C and a C2 (lets say, for the
nonresidentable stuff).  If the LIST command output shows the "p" bit
set (the command is PURE), it is highly likely that it is residentable.

	SPAT RESIDENT C:#?

"Use the SPAT script, and apply the RESIDENT command on everything that
matches the AmigaDOS wild card pattern C:#?"


Rob Peck