Re: IFS APIs -- wildcarding? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: IFS APIs -- wildcarding?
From: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:52:47 -0600
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The difference is that in "real Unix" there are globbing APIs you can call to implement wildcards in your programs... AFIAK, OS/400 lacks those. (Though, they probably exist in PASE)

Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

Just like in the real Unix, wildcards are supported by "the shell" (Bourne shell, Korn shell, C-shell, BASH, etc.) -- and not by the commands themselves. So, similarly, most of the underlying "APIs" do not directly support wildcards.

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Re: IFS APIs -- wildcarding? , James H. H. Lampert

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