jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) (08/31/89)
I don't know about you, but I often find myself discussing my
latest dos, rexx, or wshell hacks, and needing to say something
like: "... so I set it to expand #?.c when I hit alt-c ..."
How do you pronounce #?. I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce '?', but
I can't manage to say '#?'.
So far, I've been saying "star" or "star-dot-c." Not everybody
understands that one.
Sometimes people say "squish." I kind of like that.
How about "Hatch-huh?" as an idiom?
All these problems are really getting to me.
Just to be fashionable, here's an amigados v1.4 request:
Let me make aliases for wildcard expressions. I'm getting
tired of typing #?.(c|h|asm). Maybe I should just assign it
to a function key.
And, in the interest of wildcard expansion technology, here's a
rexx script named '!.rexx' which forces wildcard expansion on programs
that don't have it, such as the 'Z' editor from Manx.
"Z *.c" and "Z #?.c" don't work, but if you have !.rexx,
! Z #?.c
Will replace the command line with the expanded "Z foo.c bar.c",
*let you edit it some more*, and then execute when you hit return again.
It's minor modification of expand.rexx I got from bix. I must
have been missing a piece of that one: it didn't work.
/* !.rexx - expand wildcards for commands */
/* wshell, conman, and execio required, I think */
parse arg files
out = ""
do i = 1 to words(files)
pat = word(files, i)
if verify(pat, '#?', 'Match') = 0 then
out = out pat
else do
'list nohead quick' pat '| execio stem lines.'
do j = 1 to lines.0
out = out lines.j
end
end
end
dropbuf /* just to be sure */
force out
break_c:
dropbuf
return ""
--
Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing "... the signs are very ominous,
{cbmvax,well,oliveb}!amiga!jimm and a chill wind blows."
- Justice Blackmun
Opinions are my own. Comments are not to be taken as Commodore official policy.jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu (08/31/89)
In article <4481@amiga.UUCP>, jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes: > I don't know about you, but I often find myself discussing my > latest dos, rexx, or wshell hacks, and needing to say something > like: "... so I set it to expand #?.c when I hit alt-c ..." > > How do you pronounce #?. I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce '?', but > I can't manage to say '#?'. > > So far, I've been saying "star" or "star-dot-c." Not everybody > understands that one. I would just say "... so I set it to expand number-question-point-c when I hit alt-c ..." I only say "star" if it really is one (an asterisk), but since in AmigaDos that's not always the case (unless using Arp or some similar shell sort of deal) then you're probably better off with the full expansion. -- James A. Treworgy jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET
charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) (09/01/89)
> How do you pronounce #?. I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce > '?', but I can't manage to say '#?'. I'd say "hash-question". But your mileage may vary. > Just to be fashionable, here's an amigados v1.4 request: > Let me make aliases for wildcard expressions. I'm getting > tired of typing #?.(c|h|asm). Maybe I should just assign it > to a function key. >-- > Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing "... the signs are very ominous, Ooo! I like that! -- Charles Brown charles@cv.hp.com or charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com or hplabs!hpcvca!charles or "Hey you!" Not representing my employer.
langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner) (09/02/89)
In article <5660057@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes: >> How do you pronounce #?. I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce >> '?', but I can't manage to say '#?'. > >I'd say "hash-question". But your mileage may vary. I've always found "question" to be a pain to have to say over and over. When I was a yungun and talked tech with my friends all the time, we pronounced the question mark "what" (e.g. #? is "hash-what"). I have a bad feeling that someone is going to post the pronunciation guide from _The Hacker's Dictionary_ any minute now. Makes interesting reading, but this isn't exactly the group for it (at least the hash-what discussion has *some* specific relatedness to the Amiga :-). -- Be seeing you... --Lang Zerner langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"
givler@cbmvax.UUCP (Greg Givler - QA) (09/05/89)
In article <5660057@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes: >> How do you pronounce #?. I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce >> '?', but I can't manage to say '#?'. > >I'd say "hash-question". But your mileage may vary. I was told it is: Octothorp(sp?), Question Mark. But I come from the old CBM School Pound Sign, Question Mark. Greg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Givler Q-Link: GregGivler QA Analyst CompuServe: Greg Givler 76702,647 Commodore QA (Software) GEnie: G.Givler 215-431-9100 INTERNET: givler@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life is pain, Highness, anyone who says differently is selling something" - The Dread Pirate Roberts -- The Princess Bride ===============================================================================