Wildcards don't work on NFS mounted file system

[Anthony Shipman]

In article <LARRY.90Aug2091559 at focsys.uucp>, larry at focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes:
> Users logged in on a 386/ix system that has mounted a file system from
> a MIPS fileserver cannot use wild cards in any of the directories that
> are on the MIPS file system.
> 
> Even emacs file name completion does not work. What a royal pain that
> is!

The MIPS file system probably has BSD style directories with long file names.
Programs on 386/ix should be linked with the POSIX directory compatibility
routines. (I've done this to ksh on SCO 3.2).

The shells are Interactive's problem. You may be able to do emacs yourself.
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