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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:38:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Message-ID: <20170710123835.C104C18C0C2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Paul Winalski

    > So when were REs first designed and implemented? I would imagine that
    > they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard syntax,
    > but that is only a guess.

I would suspect in the context of editors, not command file-naming. Don't
have time to research it, though. Try checking CTSS, early Multics, etc.

	Noel