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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Letter to the Authors of ARP
Message-ID: <1008@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 88 00:35:19 GMT
References: <8810292009.AA02594@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Organization: Dept of Math, Ohio St U at Newark, Newark OH 43055
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In article <8810292009.AA02594@jade.berkeley.edu> PERUGIA@ICNUCEVM.BITNET
 (Carlo Borreo c/o Cesare Dieni) writes:
>[suggestion s about ARP improvments] 
> - Pattern matching routines are good, but two powerful matching could be
>   added. These are:
>      ! exclude
>          Example: LIST !*.info lists all files excluding .info)

According to the ARP programmers' manual, there are bugs in the character
class/exclude charater class matching. I would like to see them get fixed
first. [I can vouch for the bug. I was caught by it when I had read the
users' manual but not the programmers' manual.]