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From: steve@cs.su.oz (Stephen Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Filename expansion missing from MSDOS gawk, version 2.11
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Date: 29 Jun 90 15:24:59 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.103243.7818@warwick.ac.uk> <321@happym.wa.com>
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In article <321@happym.wa.com> irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
> [ lack of globbing in gawk under MSDOS ... ]
>A better solution than a mere upgrade to handle stars might be getting a 
>reasonable shell that will run under MSDOS.  They exist; MKS has made a fine 
>one and I'm sure there are others. 

While the MKS shell is very neat, and I'm sure the others are too, they
won't solve the problem completely. The 128 byte MSDOS command line
puts a nasty limit on the length of the expanded line. The MKS utilities
use a non-standard mechanism to get at the shell's expanded command
line, but this is inherently nonportable.

Nope, under MSDOS you have to do the work yourself. Anyway feel like
donating a glob() function to the public domain?

Cheers

Steve