From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao@a.crl.com>
To: "'GNU-Win32'" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <344F7711.6151FBE4@a.crl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01BCDFCA.70BDB540@gbird0>
Colin Peters wrote:
>
> Weiqi Gao[SMTP:weiqigao@a.crl.com] wrote:
> >Watch out for the shell, because the shell has the first stab at the
> >command line. If you are using the Windows 95 COMMAND.COM shell, then
> >*.c gets expanded to:
> > i) a list of your .c files in the current directory; --OR--
> > ii) if there are no .c files in the current directory, *.c
>
> Sorry to pick nits, but this is not strictly true. Under Win95
> the startup code of a program gets the command line unaltered
> and performs "globbing" to create the argv list. Most (but not
> all) Win95 programs do the globbing you describe (because
> thats the kind that MS compilers' startup code does). I could
> give you a program that runs under Win95 command.com and
> does not perform globbing.
I stand corrected.
There is still the issue of different shells "glob"s differently,
though.
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Weiqi Gao
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1997-10-22 23:44 Colin Peters
1997-10-23 9:23 ` Weiqi Gao [this message]
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1997-10-23 6:10 Earnie Boyd
1997-10-22 20:35 Robert Seeger
1997-10-22 7:51 GBradfor
1997-10-22 18:52 ` gnu-win32-request
1997-10-22 22:14 ` Weiqi Gao
1997-10-23 14:42 ` Michael Hirmke
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