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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: tilde in filename
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.211753.7130@agora.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 21:17:53 GMT
References: <3166@orbit.cts.com>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <3166@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
:What does the tilde (~) mean in an amigados 2.0 filename?  I couldn't file any
:mention of it in the Using the System Software Manual.  It seems to have some
:sort of wild-card properties (for example, dir ~ seems to be equivalent to dir
:all, and rm #?~ would have deleted a lot more files if I hadn't done a break).
:If it does have special meaning, where is it documented?

	I don't know where for sure it's documented, but the tilde is a
'not' symbol for wildcards in the 2.0 shell. Check out the parsing for
monitors stuff in the standard Startup-Sequence for 2.0. They execute
every program that *doesn't* end in .info and is in the Monitors directory.
I gave it a try, with things like copy and list, and they all seemed to
work as expected... Now all we need is an AND symbol and something like
[a-n,q].

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