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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 6 Nov 90 21:10:01 GMT
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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:

The AMIGADOS equivalent of "current directory"  is "" (ie the null string)
so the command 
	1> Copy df0:foo ""
	
will copy the file foo to the current directory. Note this only works
reliably on 1.3 and later systems. 


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