From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:24:40 -0500
Date: 2007-02-24T14:24:40-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcclkinz7d3.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: eG$DqrDiEBCi@eisner.encompasserve.org
Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <wcc1wkhlln0.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
>> Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Too bad that Unix behaviour was wrong in the first place...
>>
>> I agree with JP Rosen, here. The way wildcards work in Unix is
>> completely broken. (Not that I'm advocating Windows instead!)
>
> Why would we assume there was only a single alternative to Unix ?
Sorry, Larry, I haven't used VMS in years. ;-)
There's lots of stuff I don't like about VMS, but it does handle
wildcards without overflowing some buffer than can never be
the right size. And it doesn't suffer from the windows problem
of every program having it's own notion of wildcards.
- Bob
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2007-02-21 20:43 Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Gautier
2007-02-21 20:59 ` (see below)
2007-02-22 1:13 ` Marc A. Criley
2007-02-22 2:08 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-22 5:59 ` (see below)
2007-02-22 8:16 ` gautier_niouzes
2007-02-22 10:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-22 11:02 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-02-24 6:34 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 11:46 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-24 14:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-24 16:45 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-24 20:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-24 20:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-25 0:39 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-25 16:29 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 20:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-25 7:46 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-25 13:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-05 1:07 ` Brian May
2007-03-05 1:39 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-06 3:48 ` Brian May
2007-03-05 12:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-05 13:20 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-06 12:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-06 15:07 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-07 22:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-08 5:07 ` Simon Wright
2007-03-08 9:19 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-08 9:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-08 9:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 13:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-09 17:11 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 18:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-09 19:02 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 20:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-10 10:40 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-11 0:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-03-11 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-11 14:55 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-12 13:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-03-12 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-03-12 15:08 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-16 8:06 ` Brian May
2007-03-16 12:53 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-10 2:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-03-10 10:52 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-10 15:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-10 18:11 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-03-10 18:42 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-12 14:25 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-03-12 15:17 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 13:41 ` Robert Deininger
2007-03-09 17:15 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-09 18:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-03-10 10:27 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-06 15:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-03-07 19:21 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-03-07 20:27 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-03-07 21:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-03-06 3:07 ` Brian May
2007-02-24 18:28 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 13:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-24 16:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-25 14:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-03-05 1:03 ` Brian May
2007-03-05 10:34 ` Martin Krischik
2007-03-05 20:46 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-22 11:19 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-22 13:49 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-02-22 14:25 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-22 15:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-22 15:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-02-22 15:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-22 18:26 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-22 19:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-22 20:38 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-23 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-25 16:35 ` wildcards with unix shells Martin Krischik
2007-02-22 16:20 ` Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-22 18:34 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-22 19:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-02-23 1:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-23 4:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-23 5:06 ` Anders Wirzenius
2007-02-24 16:37 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-25 16:42 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-26 20:51 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-27 7:11 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-27 21:32 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-27 21:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-27 22:53 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-28 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-28 14:25 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-26 11:59 ` Anders Wirzenius
2007-02-26 14:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-23 8:43 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-23 11:34 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-24 13:40 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-25 16:57 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-26 21:27 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-27 7:18 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-23 8:49 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-02-23 9:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-22 17:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-22 18:40 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-23 10:47 ` Rob Norris
2007-02-23 13:28 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2007-02-23 13:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-23 17:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-22 20:12 ` Gautier
2007-02-23 1:15 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-23 9:25 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-24 1:18 ` typed pipes (was: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards) Björn Persson
2007-02-24 8:16 ` typed pipes Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-24 13:37 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-24 16:33 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-24 20:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-25 1:11 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-25 7:03 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-02-23 14:45 ` Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-24 19:24 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2007-02-25 6:29 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-25 12:21 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-25 16:22 ` Pascal Obry
2007-02-25 16:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-26 5:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-26 8:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-26 17:11 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-26 17:34 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-27 16:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-27 16:19 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-27 16:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-27 17:56 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-27 20:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-26 20:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-27 0:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-27 14:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-27 20:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-27 20:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-25 17:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-23 16:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-23 19:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-23 19:26 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-25 17:05 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-24 1:19 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-24 3:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-24 11:42 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-25 17:02 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-23 19:04 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-23 19:30 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-23 19:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-23 20:07 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-24 1:18 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-24 19:22 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-24 20:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-25 7:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-02-21 21:43 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
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