From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Bug in command-line globbing
Date: 13 Dec 2002 12:37:45 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in news:4331-
Fri13Dec2002111235+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il:

>> From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:12:57 -0500 (EST)

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>> > ASU: That indeed looks like a bug in that one expects \\ to mean \.
>> 
>> Mm-hm.  I think it's a bug in the globbing code.
> 
> It's not a bug, it's a deliberately programmed feature.  We cannot
> have \\ expand into a single \ because we don't want to break Windows
> UNC file names (\\SERVER\SHARE\DIRECTORY\FILE).

I was a little miffed last night to think of the obvious reason for not 
having \\ expand into \, but I knew there must be reason. Hence the 
reason I said "looks like". Thank you for the correction.

Sinan.
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