Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: wildcards/pathnames (+suggestion) Summary: wildcard library already exists.... Message-ID: <6227@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 89 20:21:31 GMT References: <352@sagpd1.UUCP> <6294@cbmvax.UUCP> <11242@ut-emx.UUCP> <396@gtss.gatech.edu> Organization: The Binary Bin Lines: 17 In article <396@gtss.gatech.edu>, chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) writes: > The suggestion: > The wildcard.library proposed in this group (seems like a nice project, > doesn't it?) could be made to work with an environment variable which indicates > which wildcard.library (standard AmigaDOS, the default. UNIX. whatever.) Since I have seen numorous references to a wildcard.library and no one mention arp.library, I thought I would do so. The arp.library contains wilcard routines. And they do read an environmental to turn on and off the '*' as a wildcard. If you want your commands to support this you use the Arp commands. If you are happy with the AmigaDOS wildcards and just want to add them to your programs you use the library calls. Note that you CAN use the library even if you do not want to use the commands... and the release of the 1.3 version of Arp seems eminent. -- Brian Waters !{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters