Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1510 from 2012/11/10
From: Manchester, UK/GB
Quote:NewSense wrote: but when did the
asterisk (*) have the
gaul to become an "Amiga" wildcard !
Quote:
Kronos wrote: MorphOS_1.0 would be my guess, but it might have already been a thing with AOS3.5/9.
I don't remember asterisks being introduced as wildcards in OS3.5 or OS3.9 - with or without the
BoingBags!
There was certainly no mention of the use of anything as wildcards IIRC (nevermind other than HASH (#) and QuestionMarks (?), as there had been from day 1 of the Amiga DOS . . . AFAIK), and I certainly don't remember any mention of using
asterisk(s) as wildcards being in the limited docs either IIRC?
I had a quick look through the HTML docs for OS3.9 and there is no mention of
asterisk(s) in there - for any reason that I could find!
I always thought
asterisk(s) use was generally a PC usage when used as a wildcard! I'm not complaining, but I feel like I've been a mushroom for several years if they'd been adopted for use early on in MorphOS, as I never knew about their usage until now! However, a quick search for their use in MorphOS did not reveal the mention of the use of
asterisk(s) in the MorphOS Library. There is mention of
PC Wildcard - Pattern Matching, but I don't see in the list on that page in the MorphOS library that
asterisk(s) are now "de rigueur", as accepted as their use is accustomed to being used in the PC domain!
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