True enough. I remembered that after I posted. I know *.* works on my Miggy but I think that's only after it's booted, and only because of one of the multi-function commodities I'm running. Memory is a bit hazy, didn't they make some kind of change to that around Workbench 2 or 3?
In the old times there were patches - "official" support for this was introduced with AmigaOS 3.5 if I remember correctly. Though you had to activate this in the Prefs.