Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Globbing Message-ID: <20056@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 23 Mar 91 04:25:05 GMT References: <17097@lanl.gov> <5H0ABE8@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> All it takes are tools designed for handling multiple file arguments. > >... it requires tools that take multiple arguments. On AmigaDOS, because >the tools are written to do the globbing themselves, they don't. Ah, but under 2.0 most of them do, just as they accept wildcards now. For example, even MakeDir accepts multiple arguments (though wildcard- expanding the arguments to MakeDir would be rather silly...). There are one or two exceptions; most should go away under 2.1. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)