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From: taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
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Date: 14 May 91 01:58:24 GMT
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In article <42279@cup.portal.com>, FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>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

  Umm, I would just like to say that CP/M used the same wildcards,
and it was around before MS-DOS.  It's just kind of an unwritten standard.

>
>Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com

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