On Mon, 13 Sep 1993 14:14:51 -0700 [log in to unmask] said: >Actually, if you're listening out there, Eric, this is something I >wouldn't mind seeing changed in a future release. To me, it always >seemed like the requirement of *@* was confusing, and I've had to coach >others through it. Under MS-DOS, you have to do *.* to affect all files. Under VMS, you have to do *.* and possibly *.*;* while under VM it's * * or * * *, and so on. The point is that there is a convention, it is arbitrary, it can be confusing the first time, and no matter what you choose it will be confusing to some and intuitive to others. The only thing to do is to learn the convention. If you change it, you'll just be changing the set of people to whom it is confusing, and making all the people who were used to the old convention very angry, not to mention the possibility of screwing up an entire list because you thought * = all users on my system. Eric