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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <15620@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 23:28:35 GMT
References: <15517@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2439@trlluna.trl.oz>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2439@trlluna.trl.oz> aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan) writes:
>No, they are _part_ of regular expressions, the rest of which we weren't
>given.  

(Hmm, I could swear that #? was a regular expression, as well
as part of regular expressions.)

They are documented in the AmigaDOS manual, available from Bantam books.
(you can also find them in the A3000 System Software manual if you
 have a 3000)

>Also, they are not interpreted by the shell, so you can never be
>sure in advance if the program you were invoking supported them.

Not having wildcard expansion for every command is a *feature*.
(I can say this because the dos wildcard routines
 are available via standard DOS calls in 2.0 :-)  )

 A mail command, for instance...mailing to all the people
 whose names correspond to filenames in a directory is
 a seldom utilized ability of csh. :-)

>Allan Duncan	ACSnet	a.duncan@trl.oz

		andy
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