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Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] install-help on OS/2
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] install-help on OS/2 |
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Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:00:47 -0400 (EDT) |
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>
> From: address@hidden
> >In a recent note, Ilya Zakharevich said:
> >> + case "$pathcomp" in
> >> + [a-zA-Z]: ) ;; # DOSISH systems
> > ^^^^^^^^
> >I believe this form of wildcard matching is non-POSIX syntax, but will
> >it cause problems? Mismatch because of unsupported feature may be
>
>
> Hmm - non-POSIX? what would be the POSIX syntax for doing it then?
> I am rather confused - this notation is about as basic a regular expression
> as it gets...
Bourne shell doesn't take general regular expressions for pathnames - there
are exceptions. (I would rather recode this to avoid using it in a case
statement, though since it's a legal Unix pathname).
> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:address@hidden>
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