From: weiqigao@a.crl.com (Weiqi Gao) Subject: Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find 23 Oct 1997 13:37:57 -0700 Message-ID: <344F7711.6151FBE4.cygnus.gnu-win32@a.crl.com> References: <01BCDFCA.70BDB540@gbird0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'GNU-Win32'" 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. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@a.crl.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".