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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <42279@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 May 91 07:04:43 GMT
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I know somebody out there will Flame me for this but aside from issues
such as 'its the standard' or 'Unix does it' or 'less characters - looks
great', the reason *I* like the '*' wildcard is because (right or wrong,
guys) MS-DOS uses it.  And MS-DOS only has two friggin wild card characters
so I use 'em ALOT at work.  My fingers just WANT to type 'dir *' when I
feel a need to see all my files in the current directory.  Pavlov et. al.
I guess.  Much as it pains me to say it, I spend more time on my @##&!!
PC at work than I do on my Amy at home - but my time at home is QUALITY
time.  Amy isn't jealous.  Still, I am much happier having only one set
of typing reflexes.  I rarely use '#?' and only got bit once when I 
tried to do some operation using a Fish program that echoed current output
to the screen instead of acting on every file in the current directory.  
It's been so long, I don't remember the program or what I was trying to
do.  I'm happy with ARP but I guess I am in the minority.  I always
wanted to be special, and now I am!!

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com