Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:4180 From: Nick Plant Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Something funny in startup code? Date: Thu, 23 May 96 14:41:36 GMT Organization: TESA Metrology Ltd Lines: 29 Message-ID: <832887696snx@tesa.demon.co.uk> References: <832809029snx AT tesa DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp In article <199605222135 DOT RAA22389 AT kirk DOT dnaco DOT net> Eric writes: > I'm not sure I follow quite what your doing. I'm simply running the normal grep20 that comes with DJGPP V2. > I've used grep to find things in other directories all > the time like .... > > DOS> grep findnext c:\lib\gcc\include\*.h Yes, this works OK for me too. My example was: DOS> grep SomeText \proj\p309\...\file1 I'm using the "..." feature of the startup code. This is supposed to recursively expand all file names in directories below the one specified. When it finds a directory that only contains other directories it seems to emit an error. I want to recursively search my disk without errors. Why doesn't it do this? -- Nick +-------------------------------+ | Home: nick AT lepton DOT demon DOT co DOT uk | | Work: njp AT tesa DOT demon DOT co DOT uk | | Tel: 0044 1952 588160 | +-------------------------------+