Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1510 from 2012/11/10
From: Manchester, UK/GB
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Piru wrote: This became an option in AmigaOS 2.0 (V36). It can be enabled at dos.library level by setting RNF_WILDSTAR flag in DOSBase->dl_Root->rn_Flags.
So, is it enabled by default in Amiga Workbench from v2.0 or higher? If so, it's being "flying under the radar" for many years in reality it seems! Though from what you state it seems it's a flag that has to be specifically set to have it enabled, which it also seems it is not set in Workbench v2.0 or higher by default, or do you know differently?
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Piru wrote: Various tools are available to toggle this flag runtime, for example:
https://aminet.net/package/util/boot/WildStar
https://aminet.net/package/util/cli/wstar
These seem to be individual utilities that are not part of Workbench, and I feel sure there was never any fully adopted implemented use in Workbench to utilise the
asterisk(s) as
wildcards, or have you other information to support your comment with relation to Workbench specifically from version 2.0?
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Piru wrote: MorphOS enables this bit by default since a very long time.
That maybe so, but where is it documented that it was/is supported, and not only that but mentioned that use of an
asterisk(s) is as much a wildcard as using "#?" as the well established Amiga option?
I looked in the MorphOS Library, and I couldn't find a mention of the use of
asterisk(s) in MorphOS as
wildcard(s), or is there some mention of them in there that I could not find, or is it documented somewhere else, such as the SDK?
Maybe this
already included feature needs some actual or better documenting in the MorphOS support systems, be that the guide, Help, Library or elsewhere to make this
long-standing but seemingly
basically hidden feature actually available as
open-knowledge to any and all MorphOS users?
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