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From: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentation
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Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 00:10:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 10 00:10:41 1986
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
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mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) wrote:
> ... AmigaDOS (since nothing uses the rwx bits yet) ...

Um, don't muck around with these bits, OK?  And don't assume that
nobody will ever use them, either.  And btw, it's rwxd, even though
the d is useless if the w is on.

>Right idea, but not quite done right. The routine belongs in a shared
>library, not in the OS

Since this discussion is about shell vs application wildcard expansion,
I'll put in my two cents: the shell should do it unless the USER says
not to.  For the most part, it won't matter either way, but if the
shell does it, the interface is CONSISTENT.

Escaping the wildcard characters and/or using some magic like `noglob'
is acceptable .. use an alias if you use the command like that all
the time.  (You _are_ using a shell that understand aliases, right?)

..Bob
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Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET