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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4576.0. "Protect & wild carding" by HPSCAD::GATULIS (Frank Gatulis 297-6770) Sat Mar 09 1991 13:56

    
    I can't seem to use wild cards (ie #?) with the Commodore "protect".
    Is this a limitation or a dumb user error?  I don't see it documented.
    
    For example I'd like to do    PROTECT #? -a
    
    Is there a replacement program that would allow this?
    
    Thanks
    Frank

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4576.1		CLO::COBURN	Growing older, but not up...	`Sat Mar 09 1991 14:15`	5
	This is a limitation of the protect utility. The is a script SPAT that will allow you to do what you want. SPAT and DPAT were included in the V1.3 stuff. It is described in the enhancer manual. John
4576.2		STAR::GUINEAU	but what was the question?	`Sun Mar 10 1991 20:55`	4
	The ARP commands will allow wildcards for protect and you can even use the asterisk as #?. jon
4576.3		BAGELS::BRANNON	Dave Brannon	`Mon Mar 11 1991 12:18`	6
	I use a WITH command to feed a wildcarded pattern to those utilities such as PROTECT that don't take wildcards. Similar critters can be found called FOREACH, etc. They can be found on the Fish disks. Dave
4576.4		FRSOLD::ZIMMERMANN		`Thu Mar 21 1991 11:38`	12
	define: alias pro execute s:spat protect [] then type: pro #? -d ralf ====