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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wildcard expansion
Message-ID: <2812@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 18:17:54 GMT
References: <1282@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <329@gen1.UUCP> <977@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <2785@mmintl.UUCP> <1038@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
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Keywords: glob, Turbo C

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In article <1038@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>In fact, any pattern whose name portion begins with a * behaves as if there
>were nothing else in the name portion....  *This* you surely do not consider
>sensible.

No, indeed it is not.  I can understand why, in a small (toy) operating
system like MS-DOS, one would choose not to support wildcards with
non-terminal *'s.  (I might have chosen differently, but the choice is at
least sensible.)  But, in this case, one should at least generate an error
message, instead of quietly doing the wrong thing.
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