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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 1 Nov 90 20:31:49 GMT
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In <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). 

Under Amigados, you can use:

 copy /usr/local/bin/somefile ""

>	Lets be careful not to put IBM PC's above Amigas (in this respect).

Let's be careful to know what we are talking about before falsely accusing the
Amiga of shortcomings.

-larry

--
It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs.
    -D.Wolfskill
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