Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!spl1!ddsw1!corpane!sparks
From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames
Summary: I actually Like AmigaDOS.
Message-ID: <458@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 89 16:39:59 GMT
References: <11241@ut-emx.UUCP> <6306@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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To those who keep complaining about wanting AmigaDos to be a unix clone:

I regularly use both Unix and AmigaDOS. And I like them both. I don't mind them
being slightly different in syntax, and have no problem with switching between
the two. I even work on MSDOS, VMS, and RSTS/E. As they say: variety is the
spice of life.

Standards (read total compatability) have their uses. They make it easier to
learn how to operate a car, or a computer, or TV, etc. But they also stifle
innovation and change. Look at the trouble we are having in getting a new
High Definition Television system started. Why? because it has to be compatable
with our old NTSC 'standard' and Europes PAL 'standard'. Standards also tend
to make everything 'vanilla' so that it works on anything. Would you like
all computers to be the same, totally compatible, like MSDOS clones? 

The same goes for operating systems. Each has it's advantages and
disadvantages. Unix has an easy to use '*' wildcard. But AmigaDos's '#' and '?'
operatives give you much more flexability than unix. And AmigaDos has
filenotes. Unix doesn't.

Why don't you complain to AT&T to provide filenotes for unix? 

If you want unix, by a 2500UX and run AMIX. But then you will complain that
unix doesn't do some of the nice things you can do with AmigaDos.

If you just want AmigaDos to look like unix, you can always use aliases in
Shell. You can get ARP, I believe it uses '*' as a wildcard. 

As for AmigaDos 1.3 . I think it's great!

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