Seeking a method to "read" a DOS directory

[Leonard Erickson]

In article <1001 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
<recall.)  Unfortunately, the match routine is rather badly broken.
<Asking for *C.*, for example, will return the same thing as *.*,
<regardless of whether the names in the directory contain `C'.  Or at

It is behaving correctly. MS-DOS wildcards are not like UNIX wildcards.
"*" is translated as "fill rest of [filename,extension] with "?". So 
*C* becomes ???????. 

anything after a * is ignored...

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