thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) (12/15/88)
Posting-number: Volume 01 Issue 054 Originally-from: Robert A. Magnuson, author <no email address> Submitted-by: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) Archive-name: s-tool/s-tool.uue Several people on the net have been complaining about wildcard expansion. I have been using this little utility for a while and it does an adequate job in most cases. If called without an argument, it self documents. This should help MSDOS users who are used to UN*X. [ ...Another zoo submission converted to arc. This one, actually called just "S", is written by Robert A. Magnuson. Invoking without parameters yields a pretty neat help screen, complete with a "railroad track" syntax diagram. It has a few nifty features; for example: s /p edit \doc\*.doc puts you in "pick" mode. The utility will list all filenames matching *.doc and let you type y or n to pick or not pick. The picked parameters will then be supplied to the invoked command (which in this example is "edit"). Other options include the ability to substitute any environment variable, current disk, current directory, date, and time in the command line; ability to match directory names instead of file names; and the ability to supply just the first matching filename instead of the whole list. Bugs: 1. If your switchar is set to something other than a slash, all hell occasionally breaks loose. If you're lucky you just see the notorious "specified COMMAND search directory bad" message. If you're unlucky you need a reboot. Given that this utility could have made MS-DOS more friendly to UNIX users (who like slashes in directory names), this bug is especially unfortunate. 2. If you use the /p switch and accidentally give a wildcard that matches so many files that you want to abort and start over, you can't...control C is interpreted as equivalent to typing "n". Despite these problems, I think this program will be very useful to those who don't change their switchar. 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