On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Change Log: > > files/dos_fs.c > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fixed bug in DOSFS_ToFCBFormat which caused "*" to parse as "*." instead > > of as "*.*" > > This sounds like intended behaviour. Under real DOS, "*" really means > "*.". The user must type "*.*" to get all files. (This is the stuff that > used to confuse DOS users converting to Linux - "*.*" no longer meant all > files...)
Strange because if I open a 'dos box' in Win95 or NT4, and I type 'dir *' I get a list of all the files, including those that have an extension like "autoexec.bat". In fact I would rather say that "*.*" in Dos/Windows is equivalent to "*" in Unix. The reason is that Dos/Windows considers filenames to be split into two independent parts: - the name which was originally restricted to 8 characters - the extension which was originally restricted to 3 characters And note that one always says 8+3, not 8+1+3. So in Dos/Windows "*.*" really means "any name and any extension" which really means 'any complete filename' (i.e. "*" on Unix), rather than Unix's "*.*" which means 'any filename containing a dot'. So the change in DOSFS_ToFCBFormat looks like it is reasonable. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't -- Eric Jong
