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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 1 Nov 90 21:34:01 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>[...] but my largest comp-
>laint is that there is no current directory character ala UNIX. 

The current directory can be specified by giving an empty file name.
Therefore, you can just say

  copy sys:here/there/everywhere ""

and everywhere will show up here.  This is actually much more logical and
regular than UNIX (just like #? is more logical and regular) even if slightly
less convenient (ibid).                   -- Darren
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