Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!convex.cl.msu.edu!jap From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI Message-ID: <1991May14.191119.1159@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 14 May 91 19:11:19 GMT References: Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 17 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 You could use the same argument for the amy to use the \ instead of / and to allow . and .. I'm not going to say one is better or one is worse - they are just different. Under ADos 2.0 you *can* have '*' work, sortof. MSDOS's '*' is broken - for example "a*x.yuk" is exactaly equivalent to "a*.yuk" - MSDOS ignores stuff to the right of the *