Date:	Mon, 1992 Mar 30 16:33 EST
From:	Bob Babcock <PEPRBV AT CFAAMP DOT BITNET>
To:	djgpp <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>, Bob Babcock <PEPRBV AT CFAAMP DOT BITNET>
Subject:	Re: Last word (for now) on globbing
Status:	O

>Just a note: I added globbing to go32 1.06 over the weekend.  It's
>primitive, but it works.

Can this be disabled?  I've always thought that globbing by the shell
is a mistake.  The program should get first crack at the command line,
and the shell should provide a convenient method of globbing only if it
is desired.  The simplest example of a program which fails if the shell
does globbing is something like WHEREIS which searches an entire disk
for a file matching a wildcard.  If the shell expands the wildcard, you
get an error if it doesn't match something in the current directory, or
if something does match, then WHEREIS doesn't see the wildcard.  Of
course, WHEREIS doesn't require 32-bit protected mode, but the same
sort of problem could arise with a program which knows where its data
files are kept and doesn't require a complete path on the command line.

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