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- From: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: v01i054: s-tool, Magnuson's wildcard expansion utility
- Date: 14 Dec 88 21:26:10 GMT
- Summary: s-tool.arc, Magnuson's wildcard expansion utility
- Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
-
- Posting-number: Volume 01 Issue 054
- Originally-from: Robert A. Magnuson, author <no email address>
- Submitted-by: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler)
- Archive-name: s-tool/s-tool.uue
-
- Several people on the net have been complaining about wildcard
- expansion. I have been using this little utility for a while and it
- does an adequate job in most cases. If called without an argument, it
- self documents. This should help MSDOS users who are used to UN*X.
-
- [
- This one, actually called just "S", is written by Robert A. Magnuson.
- Invoking without parameters yields a pretty neat help screen, complete
- with a "railroad track" syntax diagram. It has a few nifty features;
- for example:
-
- s /p edit \doc\*.doc
-
- puts you in "pick" mode. The utility will list all filenames matching
- *.doc and let you type y or n to pick or not pick. The picked
- parameters will then be supplied to the invoked command (which in this
- example is "edit"). Other options include the ability to substitute
- any environment variable, current disk, current directory, date, and
- time in the command line; ability to match directory names instead of
- file names; and the ability to supply just the first matching filename
- instead of the whole list.
-
- Bugs:
-
- 1. If your switchar is set to something other than a slash, all hell
- occasionally breaks loose. If you're lucky you just see the notorious
- "specified COMMAND search directory bad" message. If you're unlucky
- you need a reboot. Given that this utility could have made MS-DOS more
- friendly to UNIX users (who like slashes in directory names), this bug
- is especially unfortunate.
-
- 2. If you use the /p switch and accidentally give a wildcard that
- matches so many files that you want to abort and start over, you
- can't...control C is interpreted as equivalent to typing "n".
-
- Despite these problems, I think this program will be very useful to
- those who don't change their switchar.
-
- -- R.D.
- ]
-
- From: uw-beaver!microsoft!mikemo (Michael Morearty)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
- Subject: Re: v01i054: s-tool, Magnuson's wildcard expansion utility
- Date: 15 Dec 88 08:09:12 GMT
-
- Here's a quick patch to solve the ^C problem:
-
- debug s.com
- e b62 [should display '07']
- 8
- w
- q
-
- --
- Mike Morearty
-