wildcard matching

[Scott Heyano]

In article <579 at cadlab.sublink.ORG> staff at cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) writes:
|Tony.Bielobockie at urchin.fidonet.org (Tony Bielobockie) writes:
|
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|>trailing the '*' character is ignored anyway, at least in MS-DOS, and
|>OS/2. What need is there for further checking if a '*' character is
|>encountered?  Does that hold true in the UNIX would too?
|
|I know that MSDOS and OS/2 consider that, when typing "a*b" or "a*c",
|the user was just being funny, and he _actually_ meant just "a*" in
|either case... presumably the extra letter, or letters, having been
|typed just to keep his or her fingers in exercise?-)
|
	This is not true of OS/2.