Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames Message-ID: <6294@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 15 Mar 89 19:07:34 GMT References: <352@sagpd1.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 46 in article <352@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) says: > in article Message-ID: <6235@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) says: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ > Are we forgetting that Unix and Amiga are merging with the 2500UX ? > It seems to me that we should be working towards a closer user commonality > with UNIX if we are now supporting a UNIX port on the Amiga. It will be a > real pain to have one system with two different sets of wild cards based > on how you boot it up. Well, so far today, I've worked on system running AmigaDOS, VAX/VMS, UNIX, and Aegis. Each system has it's own commands, it's own file name conventions, it's own directory naming conventions, and it's own wildcard system. It's really no big deal to move between such differences. Even if I had a way to make UNIX, VMS, and Aegis respect Amiga wildcards, I'd still have to rename the command set, rework the directory naming conventions, and of course the file naming conventions. Personally, I'd rather learn the operating system I'm currently using then try to redesign the stupid thing. If there's a real problem with a particular aspect of the OS (for instance, AmigaDOS not having it's wildcard system implemented as an OS function call), it should be fixed. But changing a convention just to match another convention doesn't fix anything. If I make AmigaDOS look more like UNIX, maybe Aegis users will get pissed off. This reminds me alot of the arguments that crop up occasionally over in comp.lang.c. Every so often, some fan of Pascal or Modula2 gets up and starts complaining about how C uses "=" instead of ":=", "==" instead of "=", "&&" insead of "AND", "%" instead of "MOD", etc. My feelings on this are exactly the same -- either learn the language|OS that you're using, or maybe you should consider using a different languaga|OS (please read "you" as the collective "you" -- I'm not intending to flame Monty in person here). If Amiga wildcards are so contrary to your thought processess, rather than changing the operating system to suit your way of thinking, maybe you should run UNIX on your Amiga instead. Or run a custom Amiga shell that fools you into thinking you're on a UNIX system. Or try going with AmigaDOS for awhile instead of fighting it -- it's really quite a nice system, honest! > Monty -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession