Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!vax135!cjp From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Democracy in Action (for K keys: more pattern matching flames) Message-ID: <1702@vax135.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 21:13:46 EST Article-I.D.: vax135.1702 Posted: Thu Dec 18 21:13:46 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 04:37:54 EST References: <1108@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <1696@vax135.UUCP> <1966@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 36 In article <1966@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer) writes: >In article <1696@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes: >>While I'm at it, let me add my vote in favor of uniform filename >>expansion at the CLI level. > >Marvelous. Let's vote in favor of something you don't understand! To wit: > >>By the way, this should be tweaked in a way that UNIX screws up: for >>output-redirection, i.e. cmd >foo#?. ALLOW globbing IF the expansion >>results in ONE file name (error otherwise). > >Sorry, but you *CAN* get Unix to do exactly that. You have to remember >that it's mindlessly expanding arguments into file names, so you have >to make the output (or input) file a separate word, as "cmd > foo*". >Works like a charm. It even returns the error "ambiguous" when there's >more than one file. Marvelous yourself. Bourne shell and ksh don't allow it. Invalidate **MY** vote, will you?! Sorry for aggravating all you csh types for whom I failed to realize this is no problem. >The thing that annoys me most about all this is that much of the >discussion - including mine - is based on assumptions that are correct >for a 9600 baud or slower terminal tied to a serial line, but wrong >for the Amiga. Care to clarify? Sounds like you're saying (excuse my presumption here) that the desirability of filename expansion has something to do with the speed of the channel from CPU to screen? I don't get it. To me, one of the relevant assumptions is directory search speed. If Amiga had a fast directory listing, filename expansion would be lots better than with the present grind, grind, grind search. Though it's still worthwhile. Charles Poirier (USENET)!vax135!cjp