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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Globbing
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 16:36:06 GMT

In article <MWM.91Mar19164959@raven.pa.dec.com>, mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
> Either the command accepts multiple arguments, in which case it works,
> or the command doesn't, in which case you get an error.

Right. Or the command treats multiple arguments in an unexpected way, and
something bad happens.

Inconsistancy is a definite problem.

> Um - I think we disagree about what "sucks" is.

Yes, I mean "overloading globbing and text manipulation on a single tool".
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