Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!ra!rosenber From: rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcards Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 90 19:49:31 GMT References: <102618@linus.UUCP> <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> <10211@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: rosenber@ra.abo.fi Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland Lines: 17 In-reply-to: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 16 Mar 90 15:32:10 GMT >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. ^^^^^^ You mean like messydos. vs unix. I am used to *t8.* meaning all files with thes string 't8.' somewhere in the name. I once had a lot of such files on a Messydos machine. All files with 't8.' in their name were deleted... ...As well as all other files in that same directory. 'ALMOST' as unix. -------- Robin Rosenberg