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From: bobc@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US (Bob Calbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Search for First in CP/M BDOS
Summary: Yes?
Message-ID: <8560@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 6 Jul 89 17:23:36 GMT
References: <8907060704.AA26910@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <8907060704.AA26910@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, JSHIN@HAMPVMS.BITNET ("Hey, I'm from Korea, too!") writes:
` 
` A quick question...
` 
` Does the "Search for First" function (#17) in the BDOS call
` accept wildcards as FCB entries?  Should the caller convert
` *'s to ???'s, or does the BDOS take care of that?
` 
` IF BDOS accepts '*' , does it accept it even if it is NOT the last character?
` 
` Thank you very much.
` 
`                - John Shin


Its been a while since I've done any programming using FINDFIRST but as I 
remember you do need to place the '?'s in the FCB.  I seem to recall that
the parsing function (152?) could help to expand the '*'s if you are using
CP/M 3.0.

Bob

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