vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) (02/19/89)
In article <3449@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >Yes, you're right, having the shell do the wildcard expansion is superior. Has anybody thought about how this can be mae to mesh with argument templates? Has anybody even survey the *whole Amiga users community* about giving up templates? The ARP 1.1 documentation says that people, by and large, liked templates. Once up on a time, I started on writing `getargs()' type function using arp.library; but I stopped when I discovered the bugs/features of FindFirst(), FindNext(), and PatternMatch(). There was a promise of fixing this in ARP 1.3, but I haven't heard anything since then. On a related matter: Will I stay compatible with AmigaDOS 1.x if I say DOSBase = OpenLibrary("dos.library", ...); ARPBase = OpenLibrary("arp.library", ...); instead of the bizarre ARPBase = OpenLibrary("arp.library", ...); DOSBase = ARPBase; Can anybody tell me why anybody would have thought of the latter? -- It is the man not the method that Nath solves the problem. vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu -Poincare. (614)-366-9341