Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site boulder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!boulder!chris From: chris@boulder.UUCP (Chris Sterritt) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Yet another clever system message Message-ID: <140@boulder.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 14:13:18 EST Article-I.D.: boulder.140 Posted: Wed Feb 8 14:13:18 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 08:55:02 EST Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 12 On un*x, the shell tries to expand any wildcards before it finds a command. The question mark is the single character wildcard, and so bl?ch matches blech, bloch, etc. But if there isn't anything there, it complains, as in: % light? light: no match. --chris s. {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!kpno | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!kpno} !hao!boulder!chris