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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <8356@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 13 May 91 00:43:14 GMT
References: <JPC.91May <1991May10.140618.12121@ncsu.edu> <1623@tronsbox.xei.com>
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In article <1623@tronsbox.xei.com> bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:
>[Ease of typing * vs. #?...]
>Think of us touch typists 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?

	No, and I'm a touch-typist too. :-) Hold down the right SHIFT key
with your little finger.  Press the '#' key, and then STILL HOLDING THE
SHIFT KEY tap the '?' with your fourth finger.  Lightning fast.  (And I'm
a long-time UNIX '*' person too.)

	Followups to misc.typing.hints. :-)

                                                        Dan

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