Hmm. Further testing seems to reveal that this whole bit isn't valid, as "findfirst" is not the same as a "dir"!
ie. this whole bit needs to be deleted.
/* Lixing Yuan Patch */ if (bAllowWildcards) /* for find first */ { if (*filename != '\0') return DE_FILENOTFND; memset(fcbname, '?', FNAME_SIZE + FEXT_SIZE); return nDirCnt; } else
it's nowhere documented that c:\dir\ implies c:\dir\*.* msdos 7.10 returns cy,ax=3 for c:\dir\ (where freedos makes that c:\dir\*.*) and cy,ax=12 for c:\dir (unless the dir attribute is in cx -- same as freedos).
"." in itself doesn't matter -- it matters what is in the truename (in this case c:\ as you have in the comment which indeed does not have a directory entry but using 12 instead of 3 here -- well I never quite understood the *exact* differences between 2, 3 and 12 for findfirst, RBIL doesn't document that very well).
Lucho, can you confirm?
Well, I was tempted to remove the whole code chunk too! And I agree with your thoughts above. But why was this patch introduced by Lixing Juan on 31 May 2000 under the maintainance of James Tabor in the first place? This is a question I can't answer. So I suggest we just comment it out with #if 0 / #endif for now, and I'm copying this message to the lastly specified address of Lixing. He was active with FreeDOS last year so I hope he listens and answers my question :)
Lucho
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