[Openmcl-devel] %directory-string-list fails on real Mac filenames

[Gary Byers]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Stonewall Ballard wrote:

> Gary,
>
> That's clearly a better idea than what I was considering, but it
> doesn't work. It fails on a file named "11 *69.mp3", which produces:
>
> Illegal use of wildcarded filename "/Volumes/Music/iTunes
> Music/Christine Lavin/Please Don't Make Me Too Happy/11 \\\\*69.mp3"
> While executing: NATIVE-TRANSLATED-NAMESTRING

At first glance, it looks like something (dumbly) quoted the * twice,
which of course just had the effect of quoting the backslash and unquoting
the asterisk.

>
> I'll take a look at this later when I have more time.