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- From: chmood@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu (Charlie Moody)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 23:48:17 GMT
- Organization: Photobooks Inc
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- On Sat, 30 Mar 96 14:28:37, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
-
- : In article <4jfm8i$b5n@B1FF.mindspring.com> chmood@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu (Charlie Moody) writes:
- : > On 27 Mar 1996 20:12:49 GMT, Bernhard Fastenrath wrote:
- : > : Charlie Moody (chmood@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu) wrote:
- : >
- : > : : A couple of features *I'd* like to see:
- : > : : - adoption of *nix pattern-matching; it stands head, shoulders, and ankles
- : > : : above the original Amiga 'system' in power, simplicity, and flexibility.
- : > : : Not just '?' and '*', but also the bracketed ranging, a la 'mv
- : > : : fred-[a-z].pgm ram:'.
-
- : Hate to break this to you, but this has been part of dos.library V36. All
- : programs that use dos.library pattern matching will accept character ranges,
- : complement ("anything but these characters/strings"), alternative strings,
- : character groups, empty string and repetition.
-
- : AFAICS all regular expressions are covered by these primitives, so our pattern
- : matching should be just as powerful as in UNIX.
-
- If this is so, then that's one more reason why it's a shame I haven't
- found 3.1 yet ;), and (if so) amigados pattern-matching must indeed be as
- powerful as unix, and HALLELUJAH!!!
-
-
- : > And that reminds me: how about a real move command, and no more of this
- : > "move across devices" error!
-
- : Don't you mean "rename across devices"? Rename simply isn't the same as mv.
-
- Yes (*blush*)...but maybe you remember the early days...
-
- : This would be a useful addition I agree. But if you want a real Move or mv then
- : get one from Aminet. It's full of the buggers. Even ARP used to have it.
-
- ...before people started porting these.
-
- Shucks. The thing is, I had one that worked real well, and then I
- decided to look at the "new, improved" versions. Now I don't like the
- one I've got & I can't find the one I had....
-
- [insert a quarter now to have Standard Lecture #3 (Backups) piped thru the]
- [speakers on my desk]
-
- : Compliment to a socialist: "Your collar is very white, sir"
-
- --
- "...Clement, the Bishop of Rome from 90-100 C.E., argued that God alone
- rules all things, that He lays down the law, punishing rebels and rewarding
- the obedient, and that His authority is delegated to Church leaders. Clement
- went so far as to say that whoever disobeys these divinely ordained author-
- ities has disobeyed God Himself and should receive the death penalty"
-
- - "The Dark Side of Christian History", H. Ellerbe
-