From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:17:15 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To:	Nicholas R LeRoy <nleroy AT norland DOT com>
cc:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Nicholas R LeRoy wrote:

> > Agreed, added to wishlist.  4DOS does this allready.
> >
> > ie:  copy *ile*.txt \
> >
> > will copy files.txt, piles.txt, milej.txt, etc
> >
> > > Also, it should be possible to match entire
> > > sets of characters, for example by giving the expression:
> > > chapter[1-9].txt
> >
> > Also added to wishlist.  4DOS also does this allready.  :o)
> 
> I'm certainly in agreement, but f we're going this far, why not just do
> good ol' regular expressions? It's sometimes useful to be able to specify
> regex's like:
> 
> ls {a,b,f}[^a]*
> 
> Which (unless I'm mistaken) would match all files with a a, b, or f as
> the first character and anthing *but* an a as the second character.

Added to the "I don't have any idea why someone would want this
but they do" section of the wishlist.  ("Open"DOS right?)


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