From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-Id: <1495406.QZvfpqijrQ@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:34:35 +0100 References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <545bgvF1ttrphU1@mid.individual.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.73.230.248 (84.73.230.248) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:32:11 +0100 X-Trace: ba8f245dfe9fbf1ec435d09069 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9477 Date: 2007-02-24T07:34:35+01:00 List-Id: Alex R. Mosteo wrote: >> Alas, no. >> I forgot to mention: I tested both programs on both Windows 98 and XP. > > It would be in unix. There, wildcard expansion is a shell matter. Windows > only half-faked it. No, The VMS also won't expand wildcard. In fact Unix shells are pretty alone here. And they got it wrong. Bot Dos and VMS will warn you on: DEL *.* but not on DEL Some_File.Txt Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com