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From: dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Does 2.0 have REAL wildcards? (was Re: VLT Help needed)
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Date: 31 Dec 90 18:24:10 GMT
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>"ARP" is the AmigaDOS Replacement Project, a cooperative PD code effort
>that got off to a fair start, but died for lack of interest with the
>code still buggy and the source unavailable to fix it up. It had the
>advantage that the library and executables were small and did a few nice
>things that AmigaDOS didn't, the _BIG_ disadvantage that they were
>incompatible with the CLI script and wildcard formats.

Well, hoorah for ARP then.  Standard AmigaDOS (1.2/1.3) has had
brain dead pattern matching from the beginning, with not supporting
standard conventions, and placing the pattern matching code within the
executables, rather than the console device.

However, I was curious, not having used 2.0 yet, does it (2.0) support
real UNIX/regex style pattern matching?  That is the only reason for
actually using ARP, and a prety good one at that.  Anybody care to
comment?

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