Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:26:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199607281226.IAA04335@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 28 Jul 1996 09:15:07 +0200 (IST)) Subject: Re: `system' and wildcard expansion Why does system parse the line at all? It should pass it as-is to the program. Yes, I know this makes it hard to pass long command lines, but could we add some other mechanism for doing that (like 4dos's way) that would be backward compatible?