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From: elie@netcom.com (Elie I. Mourad)
Subject: Re: mread, mwrite, mformat, etc. docs?
Message-ID: <1993Feb21.150657.19347@netcom.com>
Keywords: man mread mwrite /usr/local/bin/*
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References: <1m6numINN5rk@apache.dtcc.edu> <1993Feb21.032459.1626@netcom.com> <C2sIGy.B0z@sugar.neosoft.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 15:06:57 GMT
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In article <C2sIGy.B0z@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1993Feb21.032459.1626@netcom.com> elie@netcom.com (Elie I. Mourad) writes:
>> In article <1m6numINN5rk@apache.dtcc.edu> chuck@apache.dtcc.edu (Chuck Whealton) writes:
>> >In article <20FEB199314013373@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> hodgesmp@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (HODGESMP) writes:
>> >>mread b:*.* /tmp
>> >>mread: No match.
>
>> >$ mread b:"*.*" /tmp <--- Note the "" quotes.
>> >I had this problem before. It seemed you didn't have to use them
>> >while in the installation procedure, but after that, you would
>> >encounter the same problems you have. Why? I have no idea.
>
>> The programs that are distributed in the bin01.01 are buggy.
>
>Nothing to do with it. The shells are responsible for handling wildcards.
>If you want to interpret wildcards in a namespace the shell can't see, you
>have to quote them. However, as a special case, the bourne shell (the one
>on the floppies) passes through "no match" cases straight to the program. The
>CSH (the default login shell on the hard disk) doesn't do this, but instead
>lets you know there were no matching files.
>--
>Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
> 'U`
>Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.
The mread on the tinybsd work. But the ones that are
part of bin01.01 did NOT work (at least for me). Did not work with
or without a wildcard. Maybe because I did not have /etc/mtools.
(I only installed bindist01).
In any case, all problems disappeared after I recompiled.
Regards, Elie.
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