Date   : Thu, 06 Jul 1989 17:23:36 GMT
From   : cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!attctc!bobc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Calbridge)
Subject: Search for First in CP/M BDOS

In article <8907060704.AA26910@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, JSHIN@HAMPVMS.BITNET
("Hey, I'm from Korea, too!") writes:
` 
` A quick question...
` 
` Does the "Search for First" function (#17) in the BDOS call
` accept wildcards as FCB entries?  Should the caller convert
` *'s to ???'s, or does the BDOS take care of that?
` 
` IF BDOS accepts '*' , does it accept it even if it is NOT the last character?
` 
` Thank you very much.
` 
`                - John Shin


Its been a while since I've done any programming using FINDFIRST but as I 
remember you do need to place the '?'s in the FCB.  I seem to recall that
the parsing function (152?) could help to expand the '*'s if you are using
CP/M 3.0.

Bob

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