JT> 4OS2 v3.02 was released April 1999.  AFAIK, JP Software is still 
 JT> actively updating 4OS2.

I just wish that they would fix the bugs in their products that I reported to
their technical support over a year and a half ago.

I wish, in fact, that their technical support was run by someone who has more
of a grasp of things than Mike Bessy does.  One of the bugs that I reported
was that the wildcards in FFIND were wrong, and operated in the DOS way rather 
than operating in the OS/2 way as they did in every other command from COPY to 
DEL.  I suspected that this was as simple as an #ifdef in the code (which is,
I am told, common to all platforms) that Rex Conn accidentally got the wrong
way around.

So I reported to JP Software's technical support, over a year and a half ago,
that FFIND \*S doesn't find files whose names end in the letter 'S', such as
\CONFIG.SYS, but *does* find files which have the letter 'S' in the middle,
such as \DOS.DAT.  I even showed him the *correct* behaviour as exemplified by 
the DIR command in the very same JP Software product:

        [C:\]ver

        4OS2 3.01A   OS/2 Version is 4.00

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

              2 files

        [C:\]dir /a-d/f *s 
        C:\config-old-after-tcpip.sys
        C:\config-old.sys
        C:\config.sys
        
        [C:\]

His reply was amazing.  Rather than accepting the bug and passing it along to
be fixed, he "explained" to me that the filename "DOS.DAT" *does* end in the
letter 'S'.  I kid you not.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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