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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:01:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: Newbie half off topic: '*' substituted by 'c'
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--- "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com> wrote:
> Hi Keyser,
> 
> > And there's no way to make it accept * instead of '*' ?
> > I compiled it in Turbo C++ and it works with *
> 
> This is not a problem of the application or gcc, it is the difference of teh
> shell! _Bash_ will expand * to all file names.
> 

While on the other had CMD.EXE/COMMAND.COM don't expand * to a list of file
names.  And if you ran your Turbo C++ built program using the bash shell it too
would get a list of files.

Cheers,

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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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