Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!solo.csci.unt.edu!sol!mstgil From: mstgil@sol (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 22:54:26 GMT References: <1991Apr16.155231.18782@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <7384@munnari.oz.au> <6512@bwdls58.bnr.ca> <20893@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Apr25.100919.21595@fwi.uva.nl> <21179@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: usenet@solo.csci.unt.edu (Usenet News) Reply-To: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 30 daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.100919.21595@fwi.uva.nl> groenewo@fwi.uva.nl (Ferry van het Groenewoud) writes: >>MY problem with the #? wildcard is, that it are TWO characters, and, as everyone >>figured out, a * is only ONE character. Add to this the unhandy place they are >>at on the keyboard, makes the use of it at least twice as unhandy as using *. >I never found it a problem myself, I suppose that's a matter of personal >perference. I do find the additional power of the Amiga wildcard language >relative to that of other systems worth any extra effort involved. Of course, >I've been using this system since 1985. >>Ferry van het Groenewoud \__/ groenewo@fwi.uva.nl >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" NOTICE: Since I don't have a 2.0 system yet, this could all be irrelevant, so please hold off with the flamers. I agree with you Dave, but wouldn't it be simple to go ahead and support the * wildcard as well as the # and ? wildcards? Since #? is functionally equivalent to * (right?) what's the difficulty? Doing so would satisfy everyone, wouldn't it? I would certainly be happy, because there are times when I would like the power of # and ?, and then there are the lazy days when a * will do just fine. -- Marc St.-Gil, UNIX Systems Administrator mstgil@{sol,vaxa,vaxb}.acs.unt.edu University of North Texas 817/565-2324 mstgil@{ponder,solo}.csci.unt.edu Academic Computing Services DISCLAIMER: My employers had no idea I was PO Box 13495, Denton TX, 76203 going to say that.