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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Globbing
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 16:01:36 GMT

In article <20056@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
> In article <DS3ABVD@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >> All it takes are tools designed for handling multiple file arguments.

> >... it requires tools that take multiple arguments. On AmigaDOS, because
> >the tools are written to do the globbing themselves, they don't.

> Ah, but under 2.0 most of them do, just as they accept wildcards now.

OK, so after 5 (6?) years we can expect the standard tools will finally
work right. Of course the short command line length limits are still there
(right?), and all the third-party tools are still waiting...

Nope, I stand by my assertion that you really can't expect to change the
shell semantics on systems where things like wildcarding are handled by
the applications.
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