Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!steve
From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cobol Data Corporation Cyber 180 (was Re: 64 bits)
Keywords: CDC,Cyber180,wildcards
Message-ID: <2794@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 06:26:16 GMT
References: <28200249@mcdurb> <451@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> <1951@scolex> <2618@ficc.uu.net> <1128@raspail.UUCP> <83995@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Organization: Houston Public Access
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In article <83995@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
>CMS    (ibm under VM) has them (if memory serves, I could be wrong on this)

Small nit to a small side issue, but what the heck.  I didn't learn
CMS for nothing -- now I can talk about it on the net.  Barf.

CMS does not support wild cards in anything like the fashion we
are used to.  Filenames in CMS are three words, separated by spaces.
The third word is the "minidisk", a kind of directory, and the other
two are pretty much free-format identifiers.  Some programs will accept
an asterisk for a whole word, others will take trailing asterisks within
a word, some may even take embedded asterisks.  Quite a few make you
type in the whole file name, and barf on attempted wildcards.

If you get a chance to avoid CMS, take it.

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