Allison wrote:
>> Roger Ivie wrote:
>> >
>> > $ dir *.?
>> > %DCL-W-PARMDEL, invalid parameter delimiter - check use of special characters
>> > \?\
>> > $
>>
>> That's interesting. Do angle brackets still work in directory specs?
>> That is, DIR <...> ?
>
>No.
Huh? Angle brackets certainly do still work:
$ DIR/GRAND/SIZ=ALL <...>
Grand total of 7342 directories, 128634 files, 9436890/9477680 blocks.
> The ? may be a holdover from earlier RSTS, RSX and RT11.
Huh? Booting into RT-11, I find that the CSI won't even take "?"'s on a
command line:
Starting system from DU3
RT-11ZM (S) V05.07
.DIR ??????.???
?KMON-F-Invalid command
In RT-11 the single-charcter wildcard is "%".
A similar error message comes from RSX, where the single-character wildcard
is "%" as well. I don't know too much about RSTS (as opposed to RSTS/E).
The only PDP-11 operating system I know that uses "?" for single-character
wildcarding is XXDP (if you want to call it an OS...) DOS-11 might take
it too.
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Received on Thu Apr 27 2000 - 15:50:59 BST