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Subject: Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:33:17 +0100
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Warren Young wrote:
>On 12/30/2009 11:16 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 12/30/2009 01:08 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>>> Another thing that doesn't work:
>>>
>>> c:\> echo W*
>>
>> Ah, right. So my idea doesn't make sense. Never mind. ;-)
>
>I think we're looking at two bugs, though.  The original post appears to 
>be about a Unicode or wide character issue.  My example shows some kind 
>of weird discrimination: it works fine for ls.exe, but not echo.exe.

It doesn't work for echo because "echo" is a builtin in the Windows
shell.

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