Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tronsbox!bleys
From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: file name *
Message-ID: <26784b59-6e1.5comp.sys.amiga.tech-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 06:01:09 GMT
References: <1636@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <4069@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
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matt of ASTD writes:
>Aha!  So I'm not the only one.  At first I thought I had a virus.
>I tried to 'more *', 'less *', 'type *', 'z *' and I got hang city.
>Finally I tried 'ced *'.  ced didn't hang (probably because it's
>so great), but it didn't show anything even though my * listed as
>51 bytes.  I renamed * to junk and 'ced junk' and behold I saw
>that junk was a message indicating an error because AREXX could not
>be found.  Well, I do use VT1002.9b which does use AREXX.  Could
>this be some error message?  Does anyone know for sure?
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Matthew Presley (UCLA CS Grad. Student) & (JPL CS dude)
>Internet (presley@cs.ucla.edu) or (matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov)
>"Twisted yellow puppies play broken flutes loudly..."

Hmm... If I remember correctly, the regular CLI uses "*" to mean stdin... 
Early C language books for Ami told people to type "copy * hello.c", and
then type the hello.c program, ending with an escape character than means
"end of file" to the console.  I wonder if somebody out there was using that
in their program, and it bugged?

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