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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Wild cards etc. (was arp CD command change)
Message-ID: <1228@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 89 15:58:29 GMT
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Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Organization: Dept of Math, Ohio St U at Newark, Newark, OH 43055
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In article <3449@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Yes, you're right, having the shell do the wildcard expansion is superior.

Has anybody thought about how this can be mae to mesh with argument templates?
Has anybody even survey the *whole Amiga users community* about giving up
templates? The ARP 1.1 documentation says that people, by and large, liked
templates.

Once up on a time, I started on writing `getargs()' type function using
arp.library; but I stopped when I discovered the bugs/features of
FindFirst(), FindNext(), and PatternMatch(). There was a promise of fixing
this in ARP 1.3, but I haven't heard anything since then.

On a related matter: Will I stay compatible with AmigaDOS 1.x if I say
	DOSBase = OpenLibrary("dos.library", ...);
	ARPBase = OpenLibrary("arp.library", ...);
instead of the bizarre
	ARPBase = OpenLibrary("arp.library", ...);
	DOSBase = ARPBase;
Can anybody tell me why anybody would have thought of the latter?
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