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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Mg dired on gvp drive: List bug?
Message-ID: <9486@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 89 00:39:49 GMT
References: <10507@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <10507@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> perley@trub.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley) writes:
>The volume name is "DH0(20MB)", the default assigned by the
>gvp formatting script.  Here is what happens when I do List
>(outside of mg):

Parentheses are used in some AmigaDOS regular expressions (wildcards).  
They're used to delimit a list of choices, so the expression "f(a|b|i)b"
would match "fab", "fbb", and "fib".  I don't know about the real AmigaDOS 
list command, but the ARP version seems to scan the string for any 
potential wildcard characters, and change its behavior if it finds any.
This could cause the strange results you saw.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University