I am all geared up to conduct some research using limewire for large file distribution. However I ran into my first technical glitch.

Is there away to use wildcard characters to specify the file extensions to be shared?

If not -- I would like you to include this functionality.

For this project each file extension will ascend in numerical order. I've tried the standard ones like (???? or ****) but no luck.

The only way I've been able to get this to work is by specifying each file name individually and although I'm not sure I think there is probably a 255 character limit on the file extensions dialog box. For this project I would need to make 7033 entries!

(001;002;003;004;005;006;007)

Essentially the files use the following naming convention.

filename.avi.#### <= Numerical Digit

If any one knows how to accomplish this please advise.

Thanks in advance for your help.


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So far it's only possible to share files by folder and extension. - Do you think sharing by regular expressions or something would be useful?

If you want to modify the sources (from www.limewire.org) yourself, the code you need to change is in the class com.limegroup.gnutella.FileManager the addFileIfShared(File) method. You could always modify that code if you are serious about doing some research.