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Article #1213Re: DOS doesn't expands wildcard argument...!
From: Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:54
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:54
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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 -*- Look at this crap! This is a MIME-encapsulated message --JAA03664.829932689/ramona.cyborganic.com The original message was received at Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:51:27 -0700 (PDT) from softbase@mercury.interpath.com [199.72.1.1] ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications ----- <budlo@bud.com> (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to xanadu.cyborganic.net.: >>> RCPT To:<budlo@bud.com> <<< 550 <budlo@bud.com>... User unknown 550 <budlo@bud.com>... User unknown --JAA03664.829932689/ramona.cyborganic.com Content-Type: message/delivery-status --JAA03664.829932689/ramona.cyborganic.com--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.interpath.net!softbase 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 Message-ID: <4l8gfk$nii@news.interpath.net> References: <3177b1d9.14121359@news.hk.linkage.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.interpath.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]