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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:43:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Long delays running SED under Win98SE
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> > > sed -n -e '/\.eh_frame/,/\.section/p' <foo.s 
> 
> It seems to be wildcard expansion problem at program startup before main()
> is called.

And what's new about that?  Wildcard expansion is always called at 
startup time.

> 	djecho '/\.foo/'

Is it possible that the "/\" part is somehow interpreted by Windows as a 
UNC (and then the call goes to a network, to look for a machine called 
".foo")?  For example, can you cut the startup time significantly by 
playing with the string passed on the command line?