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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CLI/shells
Message-ID: <2027@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 02:09:17 GMT
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In article <5490@cup.portal.com>, doug-merritt@cup.portal.com writes:
> I suspect that the reason that Jeff's code hasn't been used more extensively
> is that you've got to put a good wrapper around it.

If you want to use it just for command line arguments, anyway. In the latest
version of Browser I use it to select groups of files.

> Handling *every* possible case, with error checking, is
> more complex. But I was real pleased to see "filetype #?/#?/#?" work.

Good stuff.

> I was thinking about releasing this code I wrote as a library routine.
> The interface looks like this: "av = Glob(&ac, av);" Pretty simple, eh?
> Anyone need something like this? Is there already something like this
> around that I somehow overlooked?

I used to use "buildav(&ac, &av)", but really you need to change _main
to do the globbing for command line args invisibly, and to provide an analog
of Examine/ExNext. The best way to implement that would be to duplicate the
name of and interface to Manx' "scdir()". Be my guest. I was going to do all
of that stuff, but I'd be as happy to let you.

char *scdir(pat)
char *pat;

Returns a pointer to a static area containing the null-terminated name of
the next file that matches a pattern. The area containing the name [and
presumably the FileInfoBlock(s) and stuff -- ed.] is statically allocated.

> one (dumb) question, though. For some reason I can't find the wildcard
> documentation in the AmigaDOS manual. Where is it? I wanna know what
> the magic char "%" is for. And to refresh my memory about uses of '#'
> other than '#?'.

How about "del foo#(.o)" to trash foo and foo.o when you're cleaning house?
The # can be used to indicate optional parts of a pattern (tho of course
del foo(|.o) should work as well).
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