franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) (04/14/88)
[Conversation redirected to comp.misc; this isn't about C any more.] In article <1038@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >In fact, any pattern whose name portion begins with a * behaves as if there >were nothing else in the name portion.... *This* you surely do not consider >sensible. No, indeed it is not. I can understand why, in a small (toy) operating system like MS-DOS, one would choose not to support wildcards with non-terminal *'s. (I might have chosen differently, but the choice is at least sensible.) But, in this case, one should at least generate an error message, instead of quietly doing the wrong thing. -- Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Ashton-Tate 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108