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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 1 Nov 90 18:10:23 GMT
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Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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	I too despise CBM's choice of wild card characters, although '#' is
more logical than '*'. I've gotten used to it by now, but my largest comp-
laint is that there is no current directory character ala UNIX. Under UNIX
if you want to copy a file elsewhere to the current directory you can easily
state '.' as in:

	copy /usr/local/bin/somefile .

	Under AmigaDOS you have to use the actual name or more of some kind
of convoluted name (slashes '/' and subdirectory names). 

	Lets be careful not to put IBM PC's above Amigas (in this respect).
At least Amiga's use the same subdirectory seperatiion character that UNIX 
does '/'! Why on earth did IBM choose to use back slashes '\' instead? How
retarded!

						Jeff