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Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Bengt Larsson (Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:18:21 +0100)
>>> Try "noglob" if your shell is not Cygwin-aware.
>> Eh? The problem is that it doesn't glob when it should. The shell is
>> standard CMD.EXE, ie Windows console.
> 
> The shell (Cmd) does the globbing. Describe your problem in a Microsoft 
> newsgroup.

  Hang on though, isn't there some code in the cygwin dll to do globbing for
just this situation, when you want to launch a cygwin executable from a
non-cygwin context?  Perhaps that code has a problem with multi-byte chars or
something; this could be a cygwin bug, couldn't it?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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