[fpc-pascal] findfirst wildcards...

[waldo kitty]

On 12/3/2014 5:09 PM, Bart wrote:
> On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint <freedos.la at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/3/2014 12:27 PM, Bart wrote:
>
>>> Windows.FindFirstFile however treats ? as exactly 1 character AFAIK.
>>> And is I'm not mistake this was also the case with TP in the old days.
>>>
>
>> A quick test in a Windows 8.1 command prompt:
>
> I don't dispute teh way cmd/command treats ? in dir, I merely stated
> that the OS function FindFirstFile des not do it like that.
> (And so we should not change FindFirst/FidNext behaviour.)

you are confusing me, now... is not the ""OS function"" the same as what the 
command interpreters use?? shouldn't the results be the same? as a ~30 year 
veteran with computers, i surely expect them to be the same... perhaps i'm just 
fscking old? ;)

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