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From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
Message-ID: <MWM.90Nov19150423@raven.relay.pa.dec.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 20:04:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 19 Nov 90 13:18:17 GMT

In article <7085@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
   In article <1990Nov19.044047.850@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
   > 	Haven't you ever programmed with ARP? One of the best things that
   > ARP did was the removal of the clumsy argc/argv[] of normal C. ARP gave
   > you PREPARSED command lines.

   These days I just use "parseargs", which does the same thing but remains
   compatible with existing C runtimes by operating on an argv and coming with
   source code.

Is either one of these bright enough to do expansion against things
other than files? I'd love to be able to do:

break mem* c

to kill a collection of processes...

	<mike
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