[Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: GetAllFilesMask / AllFilesMask

[waldo kitty]

On 4/29/2013 01:18, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>  > they would most likely use *.* because that's all they are used to using...
> they would remain oblivious to the files they miss with that mask
>
> Which files would be missed with this mask? IMO all files fit this mask (at
> least for Windows).

quick testing form the command line of w2k shows that you are correct... what 
some GUI tool does is a different matter, though, and i have seen some that 
simply do not find all the files with certain masks... i agree that there should 
be consistency and i get the same results in my command line tests of

   dir
   dir *
   dir *.*

where each return all the same files in the same order...

i also tried

   dir .*

which gave me all the files starting with a '.' whether they had more dots or not...

eg:
C:\Documents and Settings\username>dir .*
  Volume in drive C is Local Disk
  Volume Serial Number is 9CAB-2377

  Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\username

08/09/2012  22:18       <DIR>          .
08/09/2012  22:18       <DIR>          ..
01/19/2012  00:10                7,569 .bash_history
01/17/2012  19:01                  103 .gitconfig
03/31/2009  18:28                  218 .recently-used.xbel
01/17/2012  11:28       <DIR>          .ssh
                3 File(s)          7,890 bytes
                3 Dir(s)   6,939,553,792 bytes free



note that the 3rd file has another dot in its name...


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