Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!att!mcdchg!laidbak!obdient!igloo!miroc!caw From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2 Amiga 3000 Questions (from a new Owner ;^)) Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 05:44:18 GMT References: <13024@cbmvax.commodore.com> Lines: 31 In article <13024@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes: >In article caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes: >>Welp, I just got my new 3000. The machine is great. However, for someone >>used to the ARP command set, I was not too impressed by the supposedly >>enhanced C: commands. You can't even CD to a wildcard... > >Sure you can; however, if there's more than one possible target >the CD fails. (rather than take whichever one it found first) Welp, then the error message returned ought to be one of the `ambigous wildcard specifcied' flavor rather than the generic `object doesn't exist' message. >>Also, the drive mask is supposed to be $fffffffe, correct? I couldn't >>remember if it was that or the other way around $..ffc. > >Best if it ends with a C (longword alignment, rather than word alignment) Ok, guess I did get it backwards... -=> CAW /////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Christopher A. Wichura caw@miroc.chi.il.us (my amiga) u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (my school account) Please! Do not send mail to my school account unless mail to miroc bounces. I often do not check uicvm.uic.edu for periods in excess of a week. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////