10 Jul
2017
10 Jul
'17
3:29 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:
TOPS-10 came out as "MONITOR" in 1967, and
while I'm not sure it started
out with * and ?, it definitely had it early on.
Not saying TOPS-10 was the originator of *, but it was certainly around
in at least one other operating system.
I vaguely remember something like "PIP *.TXT *.OLD" to rename files (the
"*" was interpreted by the command itself, not the interpreter).
--
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suffer."