john.russell@canremote.uucp (JOHN RUSSELL) (12/18/89)
Steve Koren noted the 256 character limit on command names, and gave the example of zooing with wildcards (where the list of filenames would expand to more than 256 characters). This is a problem with many commands, however archivers like zoo and arc that expect long filelists will do their own pattern matching to avoid the problem. So if you're using a shell with an escape character of \ (like Matt Dillon's shell), the following works fine no matter how many files match the pattern: zoo -move source \*.c \*.h \*.asm \*.i makefile You'll see a big speed increase too for large directories, since zoo seems to scan the whole directory once per filename. When I forget to use \, I often have to ^C and re-enter the line because of the delay. John --- * Via ProDoor 3.1R