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From: deraadt@xenlink.UUCP (Theo A. DeRaadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wildcards/pathnames (+suggestion)
Message-ID: <47@xenlink.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 10:06:26 GMT
References: <352@sagpd1.UUCP| <6294@cbmvax.UUCP| <11242@ut-emx.UUCP| <396@gtss.gatech.edu|
Organization: Xenlink, Calgary, Canada
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In article <396@gtss.gatech.edu|, chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) writes:
| In article <45@xenlink.UUCP| deraadt@xenlink.UUCP (Theo A. DeRaadt) writes:
| )So, every day. Unix. Amiga. Unix. Amiga. You don't get used to how
| )bad the Amiga commands are.
| ) <tdr.
| 
| What a wimp.
| 
| Every day.  Unix.  AmigaDOS.  VMS.  NOS.  NOS/VE.  CTSS.  Sun
| keyboard.  VT240 keyboard.  Amiga 1000 keyboard.  IBM-PC keyboard (or
| almost equivalently, IRIS keyboard).
They all have the keyboard coming out the front, and the spacebar is
always in the same place. I also hate unix terminals that don't have an
ESC key in the proper place. A friend who uses Dvorak, finds himself
switching to Qwerty and back whenever he hits one of those keys which
are the same. Wimpy?

| Editing using FSE, EDIF, vi, emacs,
| EDT, and several little custom numbers the irrepressible-reinventers-of-the-
| wheel at MFECC churned out.  With a little experience, working in multiple
| environments becomes second nature.  The only real problem I have is using the
| IBM-PC keyboard -- whoever designed that zonker should be strung up at COMDEX
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Amiga wildcards
| and allowed to twist in the wind.
I have an emacs on every machine I use too. Does that make me a wimp too?

| Unix is not the only other OS on the planet besides AmigaDOS.  If Unix and
| AmigaDOS wildcard conventions converged, I would hardly notice.  The Amiga
| commands are fine.

I want wildcards that are easy to type; and all the commands should
understand them.
Unix wildcards are consistant, powerful, and easy.
Darn it, make it simple, don't make me type all sorts of silly punctuation
marks in hard to reach places, if there is an easier way. The only real
reason I have heard yet for keeping things the same is that "*" is the
console. 
 <tdr.