Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <1495406.QZvfpqijrQ@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 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

Actually, VMS will warn you about either of those, because the warning
is not about wildcards but about not having specified which version(s)
of the files should be deleted.  Adding ;* will avoid the warning.

In VMS the program calls a standard expansion routine to get each
relevant filespec one at a time, only if wildcard filespecs are the
goal.  The command:

	$ SEARCH MY_TEXT.DAT *.*

looks for the explicit string *.* in the file MY_TEXT.DAT without
any (misguided) attempt to expand wildcards.