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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Wild Card Filenames for Amiga Dos
Message-ID: <432@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 07:58:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 07:58:13 1986
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In article <248@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> 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.
> Actually, they should exist as a C library, ...

*Actually*, the first C library routine to write is opendir()/readdir().
Since this is the standard Unix method of reading directories,
this means that programs will port to and from Unix without having
to hack up the directory access part of the program.

*Then*, if you want to write a regular expression library routine for file
name expansion, you can write one that's portable to Unix too [gasp!].
You could even debug it there, where bugs produce core dumps instead
of koans, and where there are reasonable debuggers.

If somebody is into this, I can send you a PD version of opendir/readdir
for Unix systems, and the "man page" description of the routines.
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