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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: How do you pronounce #?
Message-ID: <4481@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 18:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
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Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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I don't know about you, but I often find myself discussing my
latest dos, rexx, or wshell hacks, and needing to say something
like: "... so I set it to expand #?.c when I hit alt-c ..."

How do you pronounce #?.  I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce '?', but
I can't manage to say '#?'. 

So far, I've been saying "star" or "star-dot-c."  Not everybody
understands that one.

Sometimes people say "squish."  I kind of like that.

How about "Hatch-huh?" as an idiom?

All these problems are really getting to me.

Just to be fashionable, here's an amigados v1.4 request:

    Let me make aliases for wildcard expressions.  I'm getting
    tired of typing #?.(c|h|asm).  Maybe I should just assign it 
    to a function key.

And, in the interest of wildcard expansion technology, here's a
rexx script named '!.rexx' which forces wildcard expansion on programs
that don't have it, such as the 'Z' editor from Manx.

"Z *.c" and "Z #?.c" don't work, but if you have !.rexx,

    ! Z #?.c

Will replace the command line with the expanded "Z foo.c bar.c",
*let you edit it some more*, and then execute when you hit return again.

It's minor modification of expand.rexx I got from bix.  I must
have been missing a piece of that one: it didn't work.


/* !.rexx - expand wildcards for commands 		*/
/* wshell, conman, and execio required, I think		*/

parse arg	files

out = ""
do i = 1 to words(files)
	pat = word(files, i)
	if verify(pat, '#?', 'Match') = 0 then
		out = out pat
	else do
		'list nohead quick'  pat '| execio stem lines.'
		do j = 1 to lines.0
			out = out lines.j
			end
		end
	end

dropbuf		/* just to be sure */
force out

break_c:
	dropbuf
	return ""

-- 
Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing	   	"... the signs are very ominous,
{cbmvax,well,oliveb}!amiga!jimm          and a chill wind blows."
							- Justice Blackmun
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