Message-ID: <3B13D611.7363242A@alpha.delta.edu> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:02:09 -0400 From: "David Witbrodt" Organization: Delta College X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: FAQ saves the day Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJGPP people, I've been working on a program to list the files in a directory (my own personal replacement for "dir"), in color, with auto-paging, with drive space statistics, etc. I ran into a problem with wildcard args being expanded automatically, not the traditional DOS behavior I was used to. A quick glance at the FAQ brought me to section 16.2, and all was well within 2 or 3 minutes! I just want to thank Eli and anyone else who helps maintain the FAQ. As I continue to relearn programming I have lots of questions, but the various DJGPP resources out there (incl. the FAQ) usually cover everything, so that I don't have to post to this list very often. I sometimes get annoyed at all of the posts I see, asking about questions I know are covered in the FAQ. But I try to remember that people probably don't expect to have so much help available for FREE! It's a real tribute to how things could (arguably, should) work differently in this world. Thanks again to DJ, Eli, and all of the other maintainers for all of the work you do! Dave W.