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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcards
Message-ID: <7002@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 00:24:09 GMT
References: <102618@linus.UUCP> <3138@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <3138@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-skl@nada.kth.se (Stellan Klebom) writes:
>In article <102618@linus.UUCP> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes:
[...]
>>wild cards.  I also use in my own programs a convention that "..."  in a
>>path means "this directory and any subdirectories leading off it".  This
>>would be handy to have as a standard Amiga convention, so that I could do 
>>   COPY vol:dir/dir.../*foo?ar.* destination
>>instead of ....  how Would you do this under DOS?
>
>Well, here is the weakness of AmigaDos wildcards. The ... notation is missing.

I don't think it would be that useful and some programs could abuse it.
What I think is needed is the ability to copy to the current directory.
For example, "copy file" to copy a file to the current directory.  Or is
there already some way of doing this?

[...]
>>Duncan Thomson
[...]
>        Stellan

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