Hi Klaus,

(Tuesday September 22 1998 22:46) Klaus Meinhard to Ted Menks about: JP
Software technical support is ABYSMAL

 KM> Nice to see you back have strong opinions.

Hehehehe, that's me alright! :-)

 KM> So your assertion

 TM>> If the filename is simply wildcarded as *s, it will always be
 TM>> interpreted as *s.*, which (as you could see (enclosed) above) means:
 TM>> dos.dat matches the wildcard, but config.sys does NOT.

 KM> is false.

Wow, I've read it all, and suppose you're right about it _as_long_as_
MS-DOS v7.x is used! But now try the same on older versions of DOS, which
don't know about LFN's at all! You'll be surprised about how right I am!
:-)

 KM> I put this difference in behaviour to Rex Conn. He answered me (and I
 KM> hope he doesn't mind to be quoted:

 RC>> That'd be a bug in COMMAND.COM - looks like they're using
 RC>> the same wildcard matching scheme for both SFNs and LFNs.
 RC>> (Which is definitely NOT the right thing to do - extensions
 RC>> are meaningful in an SFN but not necessarily in an LFN.)

Exactly! I agree with Rex completely.

 RC>> Hopefully nobody will ask me to duplicate that particular bug!

By Jove! I hope not!

Live long and prosper,
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