Erstellt : Montag dem 28.09.98                         Erhalten am 06.10.98
von      : *Jonathan de Boyne Pollard{at}2:440/4.3* an *Klaus Meinhard*

Hallo Jonathan,

JdBP> The
JdBP> point is that by design IN NO OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM DOES WILDCARD
JdBP> MATCHING WORK IN THE SAME WAY AS IT DOES IN DOS.
Thats not true. See BS 1000, BS 2000 for example. There the "." is a  
delimiter in filenames (which can be up to 1/2k in length. So a name like  
This.is.my.first.program.written.in.pascal is a valid one. Wildcarding there  
works up to the point. That means if you like to get all pascal sourcefiles  
the above example of a filename is not choosen too intelligent, because a  
fstat *pascal (the dir equvalent) or fstat *.pascal wouldn't find the above  
file. (though a fstat (*).pascal would).

Anyhow. What I want to say is that there surley are other operating systems  
that handle wildcarding different to dos and that your above statement is not  
true. If you had choosen firstpgm.pas as a filename (just to match the dos  
criteria a fstat *pas wouldn't show that file, but a fstat *.pas or even *.*s  
would.

But of course you are right if you say that all available commands should  
treat wildcards the same way.


- mfg *Claus* -




 
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