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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Pattern Matching & documentation
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 00:43:50 EST
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In article <954@blia.BLI.COM> forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) writes:
>I would have thought that a generally implemented facility as pattern
>matching would be described in the introductory sections of the manual
>instead in the text of the description of a specific command.

Nope. Pattern matching is implemented on a per-command basis, not by
the cli. Thus, commands may or may not pattern match, or may only
pattern match for certain arguments. This is a win. It's not clear
that AmigaDOS has the best solution, but at least it's a start.

For those who don't think per-argument pattern matching is a win,
consider "finger *" and "finger *@*.berkeley.edu". 

	<mike