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A filer update that caused wildcard searches to fail

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dbMark

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Apr 10, 2003
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Just an FYI what happened in my world. The IT dept maintaining the web servers and Linux filers upgraded our filer hardware and software back in April and then we started getting errors (both with VFP and CMD window) with file-oriented commands such as ADIR, COPY, RENAME, ERASE, DELETE. We tracked it down to the new filer OS not able to handle wildcards where multiple "?" were used sequentially as wildcards:

Worked: ABCD*.TXT
Worked: A?C?E?G?.?X?
Failed: ABCDEF??.TXT

I don't know the vendor name but they created a patch a couple weeks ago which is being evaluated now. Just an FYI if you come across this unexpected issue, there is evidently an update available now.
 
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