Paul Taffel wrote:
>
> Even stranger: although neither :ALTFILE nor :ALTSEC currently
> accept wildcards, notes I took back in 1995 indicate that :ALTSEC
> used to work with wildcards, but only when used with MPE-syntax
> (not HFS-syntax) filenames.  Indeed, the MPE/iX 6.5 online help
> for :ALTSEC continues to state this, wrongly.

Eh?

My patchman script is able to do the following just fine on MPE 6.0:

echo "Deleting ACDs from @.PATCHXL.SYS...\c"
callci 'altsec @.patchxl.sys;delacd'
echo "done!"

- Mark B.