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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard

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Jun 22, 2011, 10:37:29 AM6/22/11
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> From 4OS2 help "wildcards".

Xe wasn't necessarily using 4OS2.

> Offhand I can only think of a test for the string size to filter out
> the smaller names.

You should have read the rest of the help. It would have told you about
TEST[?].CMD . (-:

Andre Nancoz

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Jun 23, 2011, 11:57:37 AM6/23/11
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:37:29 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
<J.deBoynePoll...@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:

> You should have read the rest of the help. It would have told you about
> TEST[?].CMD

Should have, I just stopped at the 1st applicable paragraph.
Been a lot of years since I first read the 4OS2 wildcard extensions.
Re-reading it now was a good refresh, thanks.
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Andre

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