Greg - You are looking in the wrong place. It is the shell that expands the wildcards before the application is even invoked. Chuck On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all, > > There is something that's been eating away at my cariousity for the last few days, and I just had to ask the below. > Say you run a program such as mpg123 or any other program which minipulates files, and you pass it *.*, or my?.mp3 to open. How does it parce that to get a list of files that match *.* or my?.mp3? I tried looking for mpg123 code that does that, but couldn't find it. > Could someone please enlighten me, I'm very much interested. Thanks. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (42% of Full)
