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From: ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How does one get * and ? (arp wildcards) in 2
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.092310.7500@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 19 Mar 91 16:23:10 GMT
References: <16680@chopin.udel.edu> <1991Mar17.014929.1270@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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In article <1991Mar17.014929.1270@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
> In article <16680@chopin.udel.edu> jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
>>How does one get * and ? in 2.0??? (kinda reminiscient of the title, eh?)
>> 
>>E Pluribus //  Contacts: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu or jeremym@chopin.udel.edu or
> 
> The program you run to set the flag for * wildcars is at
> ab20.larc.nasa.gov in the incoming/amiga dir., it's called
> starburst.lzh.

This fixes part of the problem, but not all.  For example, a command such as:
	delete *
Will not delete anything, but
	delete :t/*
is valid.  It appears that the wildcard * can not appear by itself.  My
configuration is Kickstart 36.207/WB 36.69

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