In article ,
dave wrote:
>Create a file with name pkg-stable.html in a directory,
>then try the command 'ls pkg*'. I have noticed for some
>time that the files matching 'pkg*' will not be listed by ksh
>if the first character after the 'g' is a dash.
>If you try the command 'ls pkg-*', then the files are listed.

I call nonsense.

$ echo $SH_VERSION
@(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
$ uname -a
OpenBSD firewall.lr.los-gatos.ca.us 4.1 Soekris#3 i386
$ touch pkg-stable.html
$ ls pkg*
pkg-stable.html
$ ls pkg-*
pkg-stable.html

What version are you using? Mine is a nearly completely stock 4.1
install on an x86, with the kernel rebuilt from the -stable branch
about 2 weeks ago; the userspace has not (yet) been rebuilt.

I find a disturbing trend in your "bug reports": They all sound too
weird to be true; they nearly always turn out to be untrue, you report
them with great lack of details, version numbers, and transcripts, and
you always find fault in the system, before looking at the mirror.

Anycase, please report exact version numbers and provenance of your
system, and report a transcript. Thanks.

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Ralph Becker-Szendy _firstname_@lr_dot_los-gatos_dot_ca_dot_us

_firstname_@lr_dot_los-gatos_dot_ca_dot_us wrote:
> In article ,
> dave wrote:
>>Create a file with name pkg-stable.html in a directory,
>>then try the command 'ls pkg*'. I have noticed for some
>>time that the files matching 'pkg*' will not be listed by ksh
>>if the first character after the 'g' is a dash.
>>If you try the command 'ls pkg-*', then the files are listed.
>
> I call nonsense.
>
> $ echo $SH_VERSION
> @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
> $ uname -a
> OpenBSD firewall.lr.los-gatos.ca.us 4.1 Soekris#3 i386
> $ touch pkg-stable.html
> $ ls pkg*
> pkg-stable.html
> $ ls pkg-*
> pkg-stable.html

try 'diff pkg*' and 'diff pkg-*'. This is where I have been seeing the problem.

> What version are you using? Mine is a nearly completely stock 4.1
> install on an x86, with the kernel rebuilt from the -stable branch
> about 2 weeks ago; the userspace has not (yet) been rebuilt.
>
> I find a disturbing trend in your "bug reports": They all sound too
> weird to be true; they nearly always turn out to be untrue, you report
> them with great lack of details, version numbers, and transcripts, and
> you always find fault in the system, before looking at the mirror.

Writing of wierd - I have discovered that, when my screen suddenly flashes
and I lose the cursor (in KDE) that switching to the root console and back
restores the cursor for a while.

> Anycase, please report exact version numbers and provenance of your
> system, and report a transcript. Thanks.
>
> --
> Ralph Becker-Szendy _firstname_@lr_dot_los-gatos_dot_ca_dot_us

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dave wrote:

I was wrong.