Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcards Message-ID: <10211@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 Mar 90 15:32:10 GMT References: <102618@linus.UUCP> <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: >In article <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-skl@nada.kth.se (Stellan Klebom) writes: >Yup, the "..." notation is missing from DOS. And from most things. >That and the "*" notation is an addition to VMS since I last used it - >"*" used to be restricted oddly, so that "xy*zy" wouldn't work. VMS is still oddly restricted. In many cases, you actually have to type "*.*;*" to match everything in a directory, whereas you'd simply type "*" under UNIX, "#?" under AmigaDOS, or "?*" in Apollo-OS. I suppose the MessyDOS user would be required to type "*.*". Aren't universal wildcards consistent? At least with AmigaDOS, you know right away you're dealing with something different. The worst mistakes can be made by using a convention that's ALMOST like what you knew elsewhere. >