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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 10:02:13 -0500
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: EPZip 1.00
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 00.45 1997-11-22 GMT, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:10:30 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp sl
><SL AT usemail DOT com> wrote:
>
>: On 17 Nov 1997 23:03:27 GMT, Myknees wrote:
>
>: >>I don't think this "problem" is related to epzip, but to all programs
>: >>compiled with DJGPP.  Since DJGPP is a derivate of the UNIX gcc, *.*
means
>: >>a file that starts with anything then has a '.' and then anything after
>: >>that. But the '.' must be included in the filename!
>
>: 	So how do you program something in DJGPP which looks for *.*
>: (in dos terms)? 
>
>You have to write your own commandline globbing function.  See the
>notes at the start of the include file crt0.h for brief details of
>what it must do.  For more verbose details, download the library
>sources (djlsr201.zip in the v2 directory) and look at the default
>globbing function's source code.

I think what he meant was how to do something that looked for all files,
i.e. by using '*' instead of '*.*', and it is not required to write your
own globbing function for that!


-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --

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