Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: What's wrong with ARP (Was: Wildcards in the CLI) Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 14:36:32 GMT References: <21405@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3474@trlluna.trl.oz> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU's message of 10 May 91 00:00:37 GMT In article <3474@trlluna.trl.oz> aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes: From article <21405@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie): > Maybe because * is already taken. What does ARP do with: > > copy * quick_file > > If it doesn't let me type from the console into a file called "quick_file" No, Dave, the use of * to represent the console is the kludge. There are many way this could have been done instead of using an already overloaded single character symbol. ARP's solution to this particular usage is elegant although not obvious - type >quickfile This is one of the reasons that ARP gets bad press around here. They claim "100% compatable with AmigaDOS", but when it comes to brass tacks, it's "Well, we provide a better way, so we don't have to do it the way AmigaDOS did." I suspect that the ARP solution doesn't work in the general case, where it's running from a script taking input from a file, but don't have arp or 1.3 to test it on.