Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!higgin From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Wild Cards, file syntax (was: arp CD command change???) Message-ID: <5985@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 16 Feb 89 14:14:41 GMT References: <8902131846.AA21527@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <35960@bbn.COM> Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 36 In article deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes: $I still find some definite problems with the AmigaDOS method of file $system structuring. I find "." and ".." far easier to use $effectively, even if they are more to type. "" as current directory $is obnoxious, if you ask me. As someone else mentioned; it's mainly a question of what you're used to. It's a fairly easy translation: UNIX AmigaDOS .. / . "" / : My only problem with "" and : is that they're shifted characters which is harder to type (for me). $There is no easy equivilent for "./file" under AmigaDOS... This is surely rather unimportant as the current directory is usually searched FIRST anyway. $I don't understand at all the objection to Unix wildcards. Neither do I, except I find "." files obnoxious, i.e., "*" doesn't match them so to clean out a directory with some files which start with . you have to do "rm * .*" (don't you?). $Next time, please get your facts straight before flaming as fine an $operating system as Unix is. Or hold your flames. Settle down (do I smell religion?). Paul.