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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.com (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: DOS doesn't expands wildcard argument...!
- Followup-To: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 16:54:12 GMT
- Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina
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- It really makes me mad that people post messages with bad return
- addresses. They want help, and you're nice enough to help them and
- e-mail a response, and you get a MIME-Encapsulated mailer daemon
- message for your troubles!
-
- Bud Lo (budlo@bud.com) wrote:
-
- : i've written a C program and compiled both a Unix and DOS version,
- : the Unix version correctly expands its wildcard argument like *.jpg
- : into its constituent files while the DOS version do nothing...
-
- DOS's command processor does not expand wildcards. That's why some
- DOS command behave bizarrely and inconsistently when you try
- to use them. The UNIX shell expands them and passes the expansions
- to the program.
-
- : Can anyone suggest solution to make it work in DOS...
-
- Most DOS compilers have a module you can link in to do it for you.
- Read your compiler documentation.
-
- Scott
-
- -*-
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- Look at this crap!
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- This is a MIME-encapsulated message
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