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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames
Message-ID: <6347@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 01:50:14 GMT
References: <352@sagpd1.UUCP> <6294@cbmvax.UUCP> <11242@ut-emx.UUCP> <6317@cbmvax.UUCP> <45@xenlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <45@xenlink.UUCP> deraadt@xenlink.UUCP (Theo A. DeRaadt) writes:
>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".

Fine.  Think of it as radio controls, then.  One radio has push
buttons and a digital readout.  Another has a little red needle and
a knob.  Neither is *anything* like the other.  There, happier
with this one ?

Well, at least no one here is speaking up for the \ character
as the directory delimiter.  :-)

		andy
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