Wildcard expansion

[Frank Adams]

[Conversation redirected to comp.misc; this isn't about C any more.]

In article <1038 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse at 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.
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