Hi..

 > accept
 > file names, including wildcards, using exactly the same rules as the DOS
 > copy command. The output must be a valid path/file name.

Hi...

I don't program in C, but.. dos uses two int 21 functions titled
"findfirst" and "findnext" to do it's searching.. if
you implement a call to those routines with a bit of assembler (Can C have
assembler routines?) you can get the exact same results as dos, bugs &
quirks & all...

Findfirst/findnext have a few strange options to them... any good reference
to dos int 21 calls should be able to help you (Ralf Brown's interrupt list
comes to mind).

Sorry to not be of help, but C isn't my cup of tea... in Pascal I'd just
use the following (Hope you follow pascal... it may help others compose you
a better reply..)

findfirst('*.*',archive,searchrec);

which will find all files '*.*' of type with archive bit set, and load the
data structure searchrec with the first match. Searchrec holds info about
attributes, size, date, time & filename.

I'd then call filndnext(seachrec) until an error occurrs, which flags the
"no more matches" condition.

As you have guessed, findfirst() and findnext() are simply pascal routines to
call dos findfirst and findnext.

Hope this has been of help..

    Craig

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