*-* On {28 Sep 98  21:43:22}, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Ted Menks *-*
*-* Concerning: JP Software technical support is ABYSMAL *-*

          (Catching up on some back mail)

JdBP>                                              I sent the sort of bug
JdBP> report that I'd like to receive myself, complete with a one-line
JdBP> description of the problem in FFIND, the platforms and product
JdBP> versions that I've found the problem in, a detailed step-by-step
JdBP> demonstration of how to replicate the problem on any of those
JdBP> platforms, and what the correct wildcard handling behaviour (as seen
JdBP> in the DEL, DIR, COPY, MOVE, REN, and other commands, no less!) should
JdBP> be.

JdBP> Obviously it was clear enough, since I didn't receive a reply asking
JdBP> what exactly my problem was.  (-:  That, I could have accepted.
JdBP> Instead I received a reply saying that "of course" the
wildcard "*S"
JdBP> should match the name "DOS.DAT" -- it matches any name
that ends in an
JdBP> 'S'.  As you say, that is *unacceptable*, because it is so clearly
JdBP> wrong.

    No.  What they're telling you is that FFIND's behavior is correct, and
that of all the other commands you cited is wrong. :-)

                                       Ken Whiton

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