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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  -> OK, OK!
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.053904.2881@Think.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 91 05:39:04 GMT
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In article <5371@idunno.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>In article <11390@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
[In response to one of my posts about commands controlling wildcard
expansion, rather than the shell blindly expanding all wildcards.]
>>I usually don't post to these wild flame-fest discussions (even those
>>I start!) except on weekends.  But the above is the first intelligent
>>comment about wildcard 'globbing' that has been posted.  I just wanted
>>to say "Bravo!"
>Yo, Jim. Ever heard of the ' and " characters? They _do_ come in handy when you
>don't wan't to glob part or all of a command line. 

Why should the user have to type extra characters to tell the computer not
to do something, when it should know better all by itself.  The computer is
supposed to *save* the user from having to worry about trivial details like
this.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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