Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

Alas, no.
I forgot to mention: I tested both programs on both Windows 98 and XP.

It would be in unix. There, wildcard expansion is a shell matter. Windows
only half-faked it.

No, The VMS also won't expand wildcard. In fact Unix shells are pretty alone
here. And they got it wrong. Bot Dos and VMS will warn you on:

DEL *.*

but not on

DEL Some_File.Txt

Martin
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