Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!zu
From: zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix-like global expansion in DOS
Keywords: UN*X style wildcard expansion under MS-DOS
Message-ID: <672@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 23:18:18 GMT
References: <215@lcuxa.UUCP> <76192@sun.uucp> <1554@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <76192@sun.uucp> naughton@sun.com (Patrick J. Naughton) writes:

>I like the idea of having unix shell style wildcard expansion, but
>having it be a C client function which has to be called before argv[]
>processing kind of limits its usefulness.

If anyone is interested in a replacement for the Microsoft C startup
wildcard expansion routine drop me a note. I adjusted some subroutines
which do UN*X style wildcard expansion and included them into the C
libraries. For all the C programs you compile you get this feature for
free. I didn't write all the code myself. Credits are given in the
sources.

>...  The solution I would like to
>see would be a COMMAND.COM shell enhancement (replacement?) which
>handled the usual stuff like file completion, history substitution, AND
>wildcard expansion.
>
This solution is preferable of course. But as I have to sources to
almost all the utilities I use it isn't of high necessity to me. I would
suggest that instead of hooking something to Command.Com it could be
easier and better to write a replacement. Anybody volunteering ? (Don't
tell me about the MKS toolkit's korn shell. I heard of that.)

		Have a nice day,
		    ...urs