On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

Last I tried most MS (DOS based at least) OSs didn't allow wildcards before other characters.

abc*.txt is allowed *abc.txt is not. Not sure, but it may even match *.txt actually on some versions of DOS. That is pretty scary actually.

Yeah, that sounds familiar. I do well remember reading a comment about it that had a working example, though. It really is kind of braindead. Or at least half-baked. -- taa /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml