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From: umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.042943.20919@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 12 Jun 90 04:29:43 GMT
References: <2533@zipeecs.umich.edu> <136735@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jun6.104643.15176@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <12391@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <1990Jun6.104643.15176@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>Looking at the Amiga implementation, like looking at the choice of "#?" for
>the wildcard (that I for one use on over half my typed lines), rather than
>the single keystroke "*", brings to mind the same question:  "Why did the
>Amiga developers go to the time, trouble, and expense  to design and
>implement something poorly, when an example of how to do it much better was
>conveniently at hand?"

	I much prefer the Amiga's pattern matching abilities over the
traditional * route, But what I think is sorely missed in the Amiga Shell
is file completion.   I think the most valuable thing about the shells I use
on Unix is File Completion!  That feature saves an incredible amount of typing,
and extraneous ls'ing.

>Kent, the man from xanth.


Jason