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                    2004
                
            
            
                27 Apr
                
                '04
                
            
            
            
        
    
                9:08 a.m.
            
        Thanks for your replies but maybe I wasn't clear about the problem. The problem is that only the filsystem knows if the file "a.TXT" matches the pattern "*.txt". There is no way for any kind of filter to find this out without using some non- portable native filesystem functions.