From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:06:00 +0100
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> No, this is not simple.  `man' looks for suitable files by calling
> readdir and fnmatch (since there's no portable way to get files which
> match a wildcard directly from the file system).  Mapping to "/" will
> thus require additional recursion(s) into the subdirectories.  So this
> is not a simple string manipulation problem, it's a non-trivial change
> in program's control flow.
Right - then ignore my previous reply - guess I should read everything in
my inbox before starting replies :-)