Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:17:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: dan AT math DOT uiuc DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: globbing a:*.c bug
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On 23 May 1996, Dan Grayson wrote:

> Globbing a:*.c doesn't work with the latest djgpp v2, for it yields ./a:foo.c
> ../a:bar.c ...

It surely works for me.  I wrote a simple program (attached at the end),
and it dutifully printed all the *.c files on a floppy when I invoked it
with a:*.c as its single argument.  So it must be some other reason that
in your case it didn't work.  Please tell more about the program that
failed with globbing.  I suspect that the globbing worked, but then the
program's code thought that a:bar.c is a relative pathname, because it 
doesn't have a leading slash.  Programs written for Unix often fail in 
this way.

------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  while (--argc)
    printf ("%s\n", *++argv);

  return 0;
}