["Ben Key" <address@hidden>] How top submit GNU Grep Patch

[Jorgen Schaefer]

Hi there!
The GNU Volunteer Coordinators received this message below.

I already told him that this patch probably won't be used, since
wildcards should be expanded by the shell, but maybe you want to
tell him something different.

Greetings,
        -- Jorgen

-- 
Jorgen Schaefer
GNU Volunteer Coordinator
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: How top submit GNU Grep Patch Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 01:01:06 -0400

I have recently made some rather significant changes to GNU Grep.  I ported
GNU Grep to native Win32 using Visual C++.  I added a Windows port of the
functions declared in dirent.h; opendir, readdir, closedir, and rewinddir.
I also fixed the following bug that I discovered in GNU Grep:
If the file argument of GNU Grep was a wild card expression that contains a
space or if the wild card expression was enclosed in quotes for any other
reason, GNU grep previously would display an error message Invalid Parameter
[WildCard Spec] rather than expanding this wild card specification.  In
otherwards, if grep was called with the command line
        Grep.exe -n -i -r "MSVC" "D:\My Source\GNU\Grep\*.c"
Grep would display the error Invalid parameter "D:\My Source\GNU\Grep\*.c"
rather than expanding the wild card expression.

I would like to submit my change to GNU grep so that they may be tested for
compatibility for other compilers and so that my changes may eventually be
integrated into the standard distribution of GNU Grep.  However, I am
uncertain how to go about doing this.

I am attaching my updated source code for Grep to this message.  Please let
me know if you have any questions or suggestions for what else I should do.

Grep2_4_2_Patch.zip
Description: Zip archive

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