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From: crooks@ingr.com (Steve Crooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
Message-ID: <3937@ingr.com>
Date: 15 Feb 89 16:26:02 GMT
References: <8902131846.AA21527@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <35960@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: crooks@ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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In article <35960@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>You might ask why UNIX files follow an
>unbelivably cramped and unnatural 'extension' scheme .  The primary
>answer is that because of the DUMB wildcard facility, you could not
>easily pick up all of the object files if the extension was a
>reasonable ".REL", or check out all the libraries if they were ".LIB"
	     ^^^^                                                ^^^^
>(whereas "*.o" and "*.a" _does_ work).

Why couldn't you just say "*.REL" or "*.LIB"?  I find that with combinations
of ?, *, and [] that I have no problem matching with wildcards.
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