From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:24:40 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1172345080 12200 192.74.137.71 (24 Feb 2007 19:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:24:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JHRCOyMdfI3Chv240VlPs1GsgAw= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9499 Date: 2007-02-24T14:24:40-05:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > In article , Robert A Duff writes: >> Jean-Pierre Rosen 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