From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sun, 23 Feb 1997 02:40:14 -0500 (EST)
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To:	Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2
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On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Dave Pearson wrote:

> > > [Hmm, I wonder what could be done about building support for the extended
> > >  wildcard system at the findfirst()/findnext() level inside OD itself....]
> > 
> > Wouldn't THAT be nice!  One problem though.  The characters that
> > are used in extended wildcards wouldn't be available as filename
> > characters.  ie: '[' and ']'  Or are they not allready?  Hmmm.
> 
> That's a bloody good point, I didn't think about that. Well, I didn't
> think it thru that much at all, it was more a 'I wonder'.
> 
> Still, it would be kind of cool.

I agree.  It would be nice.  It could be a "CONFIG.SYS" setting
possibly.  A kinda kludgy one, but...


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