[fpc-pascal]findfirst question

Jonas Maebe jonas at zeus.rug.ac.be
Sat Feb 10 00:20:33 CET 2001


On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 James_Wilson at i2.com wrote:

> How can I search for files with multiple periods in their names using go32
> and win32 command line programs? I tried *.*.* but that seems to be
> expanded by findfirst/findnext into *.* instead. Is there some neat trick
> I'm missing?  :-)

At least Dos only supports one * before "the" period, so I expect windows
does the same. Normally, everything before the last persiod is considered
as the filename, since loveletter.txt.vbs (hmmm, where do I get this from?
:) did get the vbs icon and not that of a text file.


Jonas





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