Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames Message-ID: <6391@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 24 Mar 89 00:20:43 GMT References: <11241@ut-emx.UUCP> <6306@cbmvax.UUCP> <353@bnr-fos.UUCP> <6342@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 45 In article deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes: >In article <6342@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: >Actually, my skills ARE fairly complete, though there is always more >to be learned. (not that I can likely convince you that that's >true...) (your grammer could use some work, however. [re: "you're >skills"]) Discussions like this are of little value. I'm not going to >waste time indefinitely in useless flame wars. However, some I'm please you have accepted the challenge you've been leading up to. (no, not the 20 minute CLI, the Unix style interface) I look foward to seeing what you come up with. I certainly do agree that flame discussions about wildcards is wasted, which is why I *finally*, after what seemed like hundreds of messages of argument, posted something which I hope will end the thread. By the way, whenever you find yourself commenting on the grammer and/or spelling of a poster who disagrees with you (especially those little ones that are caused by quick typing :-) you should realize that your posting just aquired a negative informational content, and you should take out your handy editor and remove the offending lines so the momentary lapse into cheap shots does not go beyond your own terminal. Why, though I was tempted to respond in kind, you will find no trace of it here. >discussion remains before I begin serious coding. It is difficult to >write reliable code when the manuals are sketchy and ambiguous. I am >clearing up the ambiguities now. Then, we shall see. and .tech is the place for that discussion; I've even anwered your questions a couple times. I think we both agree that the place for the endless flame about #? vs * is nil: So get to work :-) andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Operating systems are like television shows. Amiga OS is like ST-TNG, Mac OS is like LA Law and OS/2 is like the Rosanne Bar show." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.