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From: cc1@locus.ucla.edu (Michael Gersten)
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Subject: Re: A simple CLI trick
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 20:50:14 EST
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Unfortunately, that method ONLY works for those commands. Further,
LIST PAT only works for displaying *files*; if you want to do something
lie

ls /usr/{lib,spool}/news
 
or 
 
ls /usr/games/r* src/r*
 
or anything involving 2 different directories, list will not work. It's
pattern matching algorythm is not good.
(Q: Why not put pattern matching into the global vector table? Then it
will work for all programs, including those non-BCPL ones that fake it)

		Michael Gersten
"Still waiting, after all these years" for real argument parsing.
      Views expressed here may not be those of the Computer Club, UCLA, or
  anyone in their left OR right mind.  And that's the name o' that tune.