From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: A really simple program
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:51:29 -0700
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Chris Frolik wrote:

> And I didn't get the output I expected -- It printed out all of the
> files in the directory with the extension ".C".  I can see how this
> can
> be useful -- but what if I want to pass "*.c" literally as the first
> argument? (which I want to be able to do in a program I wrote).  It
> seems to me this is impossible to do.

Quote it:

    test "*.c"

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