Subject: Re: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?
From: [email-masked] (Michael A. Chase)

3 Nov 1997 06:11:21 -0800
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To: "Parker, Ron" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>

File name expansion (globbing) under MSDOS is handled inside each
individual program.  As such a '.*' inside a sed expressions should not
be visible to the globbing routines.

Can you send an example where '.*' is getting expanded when you don't
want it to?

Mac :})
-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Ron <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
Date: Friday, October 17, 1997 19:09
Subject: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?

>I need to call sed from the MS-DOS command line and be able to pass
>the regular expression ".*" without having it globbed. Is there a way
>to do this?

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