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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
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Subject: Re: Wildcards (+ZOO)
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Date: 14 Mar 90 21:23:45 GMT
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In article <10142@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>or the command doesn't have built-in expansion (like ZOO under AmigaDOS).

Nitpick:  ZOO has some built-in expansion.  That is, it will match a
wildcard against a filename but not against a directory name.  Thus, all
subdirectories have to be explicitly specified:  subdir/*.   Yes, I
know, this can be a pain for ZOOing a directory with a lot of branches,
especially if they go several levels down.

One thing I've noticed about the ZOO version I use on the Amiga:  When
the current directory has hundreds of files, ZOO seems to look at the
directory entries of all of them even when I do something like:

	ZOO v foo.zoo

That is, it thrashes around for quite a while before getting down to
business.  Now, if I CD Ram: first and then try:

	ZOO v DH0:BigDir/foo.zoo

it does not thrash around.  Why?

--Rich