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From: the stress tensor <entropic AT mpx DOT com DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How do I pass * (astrix) over argv ?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:56:32 +1000
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> the stress tensor wrote:
> >
> > hey there,
> >
> >   the MS-DOS command interpreter translates the wildcards to the actual
> > arguments.
> 
> Not quite true-- in the case of DJGPP it's done by the program itself.
> (Unix does handle it this way.)


ahh i seeeee..thanks fr the correction :)

daniel.

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