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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cobol Data Corporation Cyber 180 (was Re: 64 bits)
Keywords: CDC,Cyber180,wildcards
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Date: 6 Jan 89 19:10:28 GMT
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In article <2794@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>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.

Never said I liked it.

>
>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.

But they are there. CDC doesn't have'm at all. But all in all I'd
rather have a CDC than an IBM running CMS.

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

Beats some of the choices (TSO)
>-- 

Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus