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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wild Cards, file syntax
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Date: 16 Feb 89 23:50:26 GMT
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In article <5985@cbmvax.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT) writes:
}In article <DEVEN.89Feb14055924@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu> 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.

Me too.

}As someone else mentioned; it's mainly a question of what you're used to.

So why should the Amiga be the only one different?  Yes, it is an easy
translation, but can't you think of a few more important bits of information
to stash away in your long-term memory?  I'd think that using a convention
which already exists, and which people are accustomed to, is a good
marketing strategy.  (Sorry :-)

}$There is no easy equivilent for "./file" under AmigaDOS...
}
}This is surely rather unimportant as the current directory is usually
}searched FIRST anyway.

From the WShell manual:
	The full search heirarchy followed by WShell is
	* The Previous Command
	* Resident Commands
	* Built-in Commands
	* REXX-Language Macro Programs
	* An Implicit Directory
 -->	* The Current directory
	* The Local Path Directories
	* The Global Path Directories.
I won't argue the use of the word "usually".  Shall we agree that there
are many situations where having an equivalent for "./file" is important?

}$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?).

If you want to delete the directory, go down one level and type
"rm -r dirname".  This will take care of "*", ".*", and subdirectories
too.  Nasty sort of a command.  :-)