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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.172610.13911@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Keywords: dos 6
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
- References: <130@complex.complex.is> <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <dmurdoch.271.721580165@mast.queensu.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:26:10 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <dmurdoch.271.721580165@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
- >>I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader.
- >>It doesn't have any wildcard expansions build in. Every program must
- >>expand the wildcards for it self.
- >
- >No, I think you must be thinking of Unix. DOS does have wildcard expansion
- >in the FindFirst/FindNext services. In Unix it's up to the shell to do it.
- >
- >If you want, you could write a DOS shell that did the expansion itself, but
- >the loss of the ability to have positional parameters is a pretty big cost
- >to pay.
- >
- >This is one place where DOS got it right, and Unix got it wrong. Of course,
- >DOS only got it half-right: the wildcards aren't nearly as flexible as they
- >should be.
-
- Those of us with long memories will remember that this is how Multics
- used to do it. And it had, of course, wildcarding beyond the dreams of
- Unix or MSDOS users.
-
- Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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