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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentatio
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Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 16:36:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 16:36:00 1986
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dpz@topaz says:
> Of course, now I've got to give my own idea.  Make a system call that
> given a wildcard will return the appropriate expansion.  You still
> have ease of wildcarding for the programmer, and yet also have
> consistency for the user.  No hacks, no muss, no fuss, and a lot less
> work for the OS, which only has to do expansion when asked to.

    it doesn't have to be a system call; a library routine (either kind)
will suffice.  take it one step further, and have 2 versions of your
c compiler startup code (?startup.o or c.o or whatever).

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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