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From: didierj@swindj.UUCP (Alain Didierjean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 3 Nov 90 09:52:35 GMT
References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Nov1.181023.21485@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).


Did yoy ever try :

        copy /usr/local/bin/somefile ""

True, that's one character more than under Unix...
It's documented too...

->                                              Jeff

    Alain DIDIERJEAN
    The Software Winery     ...cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmfra!swindj!didierj

    You know what ?  I'm happy