Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!weisen From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Filename expansion missing from MSDOS gawk, version 2.11 Message-ID: <27032@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 23:58:47 GMT References: <2289@mindlink.UUCP> <1083@cluster.cs.su.oz> <1990Jul12.175321.15923@Solbourne.COM> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Neil Weisenfeld) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 38 In article <1990Jul12.175321.15923@Solbourne.COM> imp@dancer.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes: >In article <2289@mindlink.UUCP> a563@mindlink.UUCP (Dave Kirsch) writes: >>> Nope, under MSDOS you have to do the work yourself. Anyway feel like >>> donating a glob() function to the public domain? > >Not sure about the attribute for the quote, but here goes: > >If you compile GAWK with TURBO-C++ 1.0 then you can link it a special >way that allows you to have wildcards to your hearts content. You >need to add the "WILDCARD.OBJ" file to your link. Check out the >manual for all the details. I don't know if previous versions of >Turbo-C have this or not. Maybe someone should compile it with TC++ >and "post" the results to SIMTEL20..... > Haven't really been following this thread so If this is out of context, you have my apologies: Under Microsoft C/Quick C, you can link with setargv.obj. It should be in with the libraries. Also, link with the /NOE option. Neil >Warner > >-- >Warner Losh imp@Solbourne.COM >Boycott Lotus. #include =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Neil I. Weisenfeld | InterNet: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Dept. of Computer and Info. Sciences | USPS: I dunno, I'm moving... University of Pennsylvania | PENNmail: Don't even try it... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=