Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:54:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: /? command line args being altered by DJGPP
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> > Only if no matching filenames are found, the pattern (including ? and
> > *) will be passed to the subprogram, instead.
> 
> Note that no shells that I'm aware of (certainly not the most popular
> ones) do this; if there is no match to the glob, either nothing will be
> past (it will evaluate to null) or the shell will return an error and
> not execute the command.

The DJGPP FAQ explains that the DJGPP behavior in these cases is like 
that of Bourne shell, Bash, and their ilk.  Csh, tcsh and their family 
are those which say "No match" and refuse to run the command.