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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: **WARNING** Mush 7.0.0 scrambles mailbox
Message-ID: <1989Dec15.231640.9426@vicom.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 23:16:40 GMT
References: <8912151519.AA05853@xenna.Xylogics.COM> <6200@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA
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In article <6200@ogicse.ogc.edu> schaefer@ogicse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
=In article <8912151519.AA05853@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
=}    Actually, to be more specific, typing +^D just says "/u6/loverso/Mail/" -
=}    I need to type +/^D to get it to list out the individual folders.  This
=}    is misleading, because +foo^D lists folders that start with +foo - no "/"
=}    is required.
=
=This in intentional.  In effect, "+foo" expands to "$folder/foo" but "+"
=expands only to "$folder".  You have to type ~/^D to list files in your
=home directory; that's the analogy on which listing with +/^D is based.
=+/foo^D will work, too, so I don't see how the / is "misleading".  

Because the "+" implies the folders, not just the directory they are stored in.
As the person who wrote the program, you are thinking about how you implemented
"+" rather than what it means.
=
=There DOES have to be a space between the "~w" and whatever you are 
=completing, or mush will try to find a file in your home directory (~)
=whose name begins with "w" ....

Shouldn't "~w" mean the home directory of user "w"?
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com