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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <15532@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Nov 90 03:11:18 GMT
References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>
>	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). 

Not so, unless you consider "" convoluted.  The way to do this is :

	copy /usr/local/bin/somefile ""

Works like a champ.

>						Jeff

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