Re: Need to scan files

This gets better and better.

Yeah, I saw the statement about case-sensitive systems. But it worked when
I did not have wildcards, so I thought it did not apply. If it were
consistent, we ought to have to enter everything in the QSYS.LIB system in
uppercase. Of course, the 400 does "some" automatic conversion. So if you
don't have an asterisk, it'll make it uppercase for you, it seems.

About return codes, maybe they're in AIX documentation. The QSHELL docs
refer to those, I think.

I surely do wish that the SQL folks in Rochester had thought of FILEs as
directories and used the MBRs like IFS does. Then we'd have noe of this
ALIAS nonsense.

At 07:33 PM 4/6/02 +1000, you wrote:

>Hello Vernon,
>
>You wrote:
> >tail
> >*.mbr
>
> >tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or
> >directory.
>
>When using a case-insensitive file system (e.g., QSYS) the shell expects
>wildcard expansions to be in UPPER case.
>
>tail *.MBR will work as expected - but not for externally described PFs as
>we've all just learned.
>
>I've tried looking for a description of the poxy return codes from the
>QSHELL utilities (e.g., 001-0023, 001-0072, etc.) but can't find it in the
>QSHELL Interpreter information in the CD InfoCenter, nor in the QSHELL
>Interpreter Reference PDF, nor in the QSHELL Interpreter zip file of HTML
>files (which incidentally don't have the toolbox.htm supposed start file
>nor any other file I could find that seemed a start file -- doesn't anyone
>TEST this stuff before they ship it.  This crap is hard enough without our
>job being made more difficult by incompetence.).
>
>Regards,
>Simon Coulter.
>
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