Re: texi2dvi: Support bibunits

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:59:42 +0100
> 
>  > What does it mean ``some patterns are likely not to match''?
> 
> It means that I added bu[0-9]*.aux, which might not match at all.  In
> which case, depending upon the shell you might have an error, get the
> pattern back as result, or have the pattern expand to nothing.

Really?  I always thought that Bourne shells behave in the same
consistent way in these cases, and that it's csh family that deviates.

> ls maps all these behavior to the latter.

Perhaps on Unix, but not on Windows.  On Windows, some ports of `ls'
say "Invalid argument" if you feed them with a non-matching pattern.

So I'd prefer to find a more reliable way to deal with this issue.

> And anyway, I fail to see what -F would change here.

It might add a character to the file names it outputs.