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From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <1991May7.003043.8751@bilver.uucp>
Date: 7 May 91 00:30:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.100919.21595@fwi.uva.nl> <21179@cbmvax.commodore.com> <mstgil.673311266@sol>
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <mstgil.673311266@sol> mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu writes:
>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?

That's why I use the ARP commands.  They give you the best of both worlds.
If ARP can reasonably support * (and in a consistent manner, yet), why
can't AmigaDOS?

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