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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <15517@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 15:52:45 GMT
References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
>Well it's about due!  I personally HATE the #? qualifier.  Boy what a
>wierd combination.  It's only like UNIX and the IBM world (billions and
>billions by Carl Sagan) users use the STANDARD * wildcard.
> 
>Jeesh...Why didn't Commodore support the !@#$%^&* wild card instead.  We
>all love enteringin the oodles of characters to represent an entity
>represented by * everywhere else.

Ah, the eternal debate.  This, and setting the filedate on COPY :-)

1.  typing #? instead of * isn't that hard.

2.  Amiga wildcards are regular expressions, more powerful than
    the simple PC *

3.  2.0 dos.library has a bit which, if you set it, makes * a synonym for #?


BTW, in the book _Cyteen_,  the main computer uses AmigaDOS wildcards...

			andy
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