Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames (my last comment, YEAH!) Message-ID: <6338@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 20 Mar 89 16:58:32 GMT References: <45@xenlink.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 in article <45@xenlink.UUCP>, deraadt@xenlink.UUCP (Theo A. DeRaadt) says: >> Think of wildcards as the location of the gas tank fill spout, >> then. You worked that one out, didn't you ? > I sit down at a Unix box. I write some code. I will use "*" within 5 > minutes, guaranteed. I'd say that's an "accelerator", not a > "gas tank fill spout". To extend the car metaphore, take the Audi 5000. Apparently lots of folks who aren't used to the car have had a hard time with the location of it's accelerator. Expert drivers, or folks who drive it every day, have no trouble going between an Audi accelerator pedal and that of any other car. > So, every day. Unix. Amiga. Unix. Amiga. You don't get used to how > bad the Amiga commands are. I don't get used to bad commands, whether on Amiga or a Unix machine. I use both all the time, and others as well. I like the Amiga conventions more than other system I use. Unix is OK, though it has it's quirks. VMS, MS-DOS, and Aegis seem more brain damaged, but I can still use them without "driving through the garage door". >