KM> Before you spend too much time getting heated up, a clear description 
 KM> of what happens and what you expect to happen would be welcome. 
 KM> Perhaps then we all could support you in reasoning with Rex Conn here.

I don't think that Rex Conn inhabits this echo any more.  But if you still
aren't clear on what the problem is, here's a short example of how FFIND
doesn't handle wildcards correctly on non-DOS platforms (in this case Take
Command for OS/2 on OS/2 Warp):

[C:\]ver

Take Command for OS/2 2.01A   OS/2 Version is 4.00

[C:\]dir /a-d *s

 Volume in drive C is WARP           Serial number is 6C01:AB46
 Directory of  C:\*s

23-09-98  19:09           7,527           0  config.sys
28-12-95   9:31           1,381           0  info.config.sys
          8,908 bytes in 2 files and 0 dirs    9,216 bytes allocated
  7,929,395,712 bytes free

[C:\]copy /n *s c:\temp
C:\config.sys => C:\temp\config.sys
C:\info.config.sys => C:\temp\info.config.sys
     0 files copied

[C:\]move /n *s c:\temp    
C:\config.sys -> C:\temp\config.sys
C:\info.config.sys -> C:\temp\info.config.sys
     0 files moved

[C:\]del /n *s
Deleting C:\config.sys
Deleting C:\info.config.sys
     0 files deleted

[C:\]ffind *s
C:\DOS.DAT
C:\progres.tmp

      2 files

[C:\]

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