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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Wild Card Filenames for Amiga Dos
Message-ID: <248@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 21:43:58 EST
Article-I.D.: ism780c.248
Posted: Tue Jan 14 21:43:58 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 01:36:07 EST
References: <2999@vax4.fluke.UUCP> <4795@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <4795@alice.UUCP> sgt@alice.UucP (Steve Tell) writes:
>>
>> [wants wildcard expansion functions in C]
>
>The above function should exist only in the shell, and do it's work
>there.  I hope the folks out there writing alternatives to
>CLI do this right.

Actually, they should exist as a C library, so that anyone writing a shell
can easily make sure they have wildcard handling.  Also, any program that
for some reason wants to get a file name from the user can then handle
wildcards easily this way.

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