At 07:31 PM 7/4/97 +0200, Grzegorz Wojtowicz wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Ruben van Staveren wrote:
>
>> > > mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd?a /mnt 
>> expanded:
>> 
>> mount_cd9660 -o -ro  /dev/cd0a /dev/cd1a /dev/cd2a /dev/cd3a ... /mnt
>> 
>> what mount_cd9660 thinks is that you want to mount special /dev/cd0a
>> on mountpoint /dev/cd1a, which makes no sense...
>> 
>> someting like formatting an assign under AmigaOS.... 
>
>I just give "?" in excerpt to say that no matter which drive it is.
>of course thereis no sense in /dev/cd?a
>In my case it was /dev/cd1a

When in doubt about pattern matching, do this:
echo /dev/cd?a

This will tell you *exactly* what the pattern will expand to. 

This is also useful for when your system is *so* hosed up that 'ls' won't
work.
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