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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking a method to "read" a DOS directory
Message-ID: <829@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 04:58:04 GMT
References: <902@cblpe.ATT.COM> <1001@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <1001@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
<recall.)  Unfortunately, the match routine is rather badly broken.
<Asking for *C.*, for example, will return the same thing as *.*,
<regardless of whether the names in the directory contain `C'.  Or at

It is behaving correctly. MS-DOS wildcards are not like UNIX wildcards.
"*" is translated as "fill rest of [filename,extension] with "?". So 
*C* becomes ???????. 

anything after a * is ignored...

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