Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:07:41 -0400
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: buers AT dg1 DOT chemie DOT uni-konstanz DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: suggestion for further djgpp development


> So I'd like to suggest, to make globbing part of libc and not of
> go32. One could, by default call a Dosish globbing routine in the
> startup code, or, link with an at link time specified routine.
> This would be similar to what  Turbo-C does with wildarg.obj.
> The module could be something like noglob.o or even unixglob.o.
> Maybe we then could do diff -c file.{bak,c} someday.

This is already implemented in 1.11.

> The same could be done with response files, which right now 
> go32 expands transparently. This is very nice, but can be inconvenient
> as well. You could call the default response file expansion routine
> in the startup code, or link with something else.

This is an interesting idea for 1.11 also, although I think you can
escape the '@' with a backslash.  Personally, I'd rather not mess with
this one.  What I can do is preserve the argument if it is not a file.

DJ