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From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <1623@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 11 May 91 15:33:56 GMT
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In article <1991May10.140618.12121@ncsu.edu> harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) writes:
>jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) writes:
>
>>>   I don't understand why people consider the stupid star to be so important.
>
>Because it is one less character to type.  People tend to be lazy you know.

I've got a better reason than just that it's one extra character.
Think of us touch typists (yeah, there are techie's who know how to do
that!<grin>) who have to hit shift with the right little finger and
reach up to the three with the left middle finger for #, then have to
reach down and hit shift with the left little finger and hit the / key
with the right little finger for ?.  Now do you see why hitting shift-8
for * is so much easier?

Of course, I'm also a lazy person...<chuckle>

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