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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Filename expansion missing from MSDOS gawk, version 2.11
Keywords: gawk, filename
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.031154.11941@druid.uucp>
Date: 29 Jun 90 03:11:54 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.103243.7818@warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1990Jun28.103243.7818@warwick.ac.uk> bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) writes:
>On a UNIX system a command of the form
>        gawk -f process.awk data*.*
>has the wildcard filename expansion dealt with by the UNIX shell.
>
>On an MSDOS system, at least with version 3.xx, there is no such shell
>expansion.  Instead, wildcards are dealt with *within*each*application*
>by first match (INT21H/4EH) and next match (INT21H/4FH).
>
>The 2.02 beta version did that.
>The 2.11 version currently on SIMTEL does not: all filenames have to be
>explicitly entered.
>
>Is a suitable upgrade on the way?

Actually, all you have to do is include the proper file during the link
phase.  If you are using Turbo C, this file is WILDARGS.OBJ.  I can't
recall the name of the MSC file but it does exist.  When included it does
the filename expansion and presents the arguments to main like Unix shell
does.

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