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From: ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How does one get * and ? (arp wildcards) in 2.0???
Keywords: * ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.182351.12954@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:23:51 GMT
References: <16680@chopin.udel.edu> <1991Mar17.014929.1270@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Organization: Clemson University
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cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:

>In article <16680@chopin.udel.edu> jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
>>How does one get * and ? in 2.0??? (kinda reminiscient of the title, eh?)
>> 
>>E Pluribus //  Contacts: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu or jeremym@chopin.udel.edu or

>The program you run to set the flag for * wildcars is at
>ab20.larc.nasa.gov in the incoming/amiga dir., it's called
>starburst.lzh.


>   CloseLibrary(lib);

Starburst really didn't function like UNIX * (ie. ls *. and ls * )
so here is amazing beta software source of my new ultra-advanced-OOPS
star system 12....

starburstII which works on 1.3 and 2.0  wheres my green sticker?
(if you are lazy, three executables rm, ls, cp and source are on hubcap
in UTILS)

I reluctantly place this in the public domain! :)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main(int, char *[]);
void replace_star(char *);
char newstring[256]="dir ";

void main (argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{

 int x;
 
 /* called from workbench, exit */
 if (!argc) exit(0);
 
 for (x=1;x<argc;x++)
   replace_star(argv[x]);
   
 system(newstring);
}

/* replace all occurences of '*' with '#?'.  Yes, its cheap, but it works */
void replace_star(string)
char *string;
{
   char *evil = "#?";
   char *begin, *end;
   
   begin = end = string;

do {
     if (*end == '*')
         {
            *end = 0;
            strcat(newstring,begin);
            strcat(newstring,evil);
            begin=end+1;
            
         }
     end++;
      
}while (*end);

strcat(newstring,begin);
strcat(newstring," ");
}   
-- 
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 optimum customer satisfaction, and that any customer missing his balls 
 should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary functional
 items. " -- abstract from computer accessory parts catalog (mouse balls)