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- From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: The ULTIMATE wildcard (was Re: Wildcards in the CLI)
- Date: 14 May 91 01:03:58 GMT
-
- To all you complainers about Amiga wildcards: Is "#?" too hard to
- type? Does "*" have too many conflicting meanings? Do you secretly yearn
- for "*.*" but fear that your friends will hate you? (Well... I can't help
- you with that last one. :-))
-
- The solution is here! I have written an input handler called
- STAR-NAPALM that makes wildcard typing easier than anything you have EVER
- seen before.
-
- What does it do? It maps the empty string as the AmigaDOS wildcard
- character! So, whenever you need a wildcard, you don't have to type
- ANYTHING AT ALL! What could be simpler?!?
-
- I've taken star-naplam.handler, as supplied with BLAZEMONGER MXVIX
- (betcha didn't know we used the OS, did you?), and placed it into the Public
- Domain. You can find it on finer ftp sites everywhere. Just give the empty
- string as your login name and password, and the handler will be automatically
- downloaded to your Amiga, installed in your L: directory (its filename will
- be an empty string, of course), appended to your startup-sequence, and then
- run! The ultimate in convenience.
-
- As a test to make sure it is working, try the following CLI command:
-
- 1> dir
-
- As the invisible wildcard expands, it will match every file in the current
- directory.
-
- Now, some of you whiners may complain that star-napalm is dangerous.
- Well, we built in a special SAFETY FEATURE to prevent unwanted expansions.
- If you ever accidentally type just the wildcard by itself:
-
- 1>
-
- then star-napalm automatically ignores the command.
-
- Well, that's it! No need to thank me -- I've already done it
- myself. :-) :-)
-
- Dan
-
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- Copyright 1991 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
- This article may be freely distributed, but may not be included in any
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