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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Long delays running SED under Win98SE
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:19:12 -0600 (CST)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii), pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
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> > > 	djecho '/\.foo/'
> > 
> > Is it possible that the "/\" part is somehow interpreted by Windows as a 
> > UNC (and then the call goes to a network, to look for a machine called 
> > ".foo")?  For example, can you cut the startup time significantly by 
> > playing with the string passed on the command line?
> 
> Yes it seems to be so. If I feed some real UNC after '/\' I'm getting much 
> faster response time. Maybe it would be best to forbid an attempt
> to interpret argument as UNC at program startup. 
> 
> Otherwise I'm getting trouble when feeding legal argument to SED
> which perfectly works under Linux.

If this is for wildcard expansion - we shouldn't do any operations on
strings that don't include * ? ...

Eventually I'd like to fix UNCs to work so avoid adding things that make
it worse