Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Questions from MAC beginner/computing old timer Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 02:44:07 GMT References: <1991Jun19.203232.24353@convex.com> <1991Jun19.212528.24133@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: shores@fergvax.unl.edu's message of 20 Jun 91 22: 56:36 GMT In article shores@fergvax.unl.edu (Shores) writes: A friend of mine here is working on a command-line interface. I've played around with a development version. I don't really enjoy all the typing involved with these things, but since most of the few commands he's implemented perform just as they do in unix, it would probably be a godsend for unix/DOS diehards. Myself, I was impressed with being able to do things with wildcards, about the only thing I envy in unix. Under Sys7 you can do a Find, by whatever criterion you like, and click the "All at Once" button to select all files matching the criterion. You can then do whatever you want with them. This is a nice way to get wildcards of the form part*, *part, and *part* (and their negations, which I don't think Unix does); it's not as nice as general regexps, but you can search by file type, modification date, etc. It's getting there. :-) -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/