Understood.  I guess my UNIX experience influenced my expectations.

I sifted through the documentation to see if the behavior of the asterisk
is defined, but I didn't see anything.  I looked in the obvious places like
Aliases, Inclusions and Exclusions, Syntax of Configuration Commands,
and the Quick Reference. If it's behavior isn't defined elsewhere in the
documentation, it might be appropriate to include it in future versions
as other users might also expect *NIX-like behavior.

-- Duke


Stephen Turner wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Duke Hillard wrote:
>
> > Assuming that TYPEOUTPUTALIAS isn't the intended command,
> > my impression from the Analog documention page for Aliases
> > (http://www.analog.cx/docs/alias.html) is that an asterisk
> > represents one directory level.  If so, this behavior would
> > be consistent with the behavior of UNIX's "ls" command
>
> It would, but it isn't. * matches any sequence of characters, including /'s.
>
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