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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Wild card expansion under VAX11-C:
Message-ID: <2262@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 05:41:35 GMT
References: <5361@ames.arpa> <28200002@uiucdcsm>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <28200002@uiucdcsm> hartman@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>/* ---------- "Wild card expansion under VAX11-C:" ---------- */

But there is one problem with wildcard expansion under VAX/VMS, and if
anybody has a solution I would like to know.

Under UNIX, if I type "echo *", I see an expanded list of filenames
without any directory prefixes.  But if I type "echo /usr/bin/*" I see
an expanded list of full pathnames.  A directory prefix is added only
if I specified one.  I like this.

But under VAX/VMS, if I expand "*.*", I always get a complete
specification of the form DEVICE:[DIRECTORY]FILENAME.EXT;v.  It would be
nice to be able to expand "*.*" to just filenames, without directory
names etc.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi