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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:09:55 -0600 (CST)
> 
> > > If this is for wildcard expansion - we shouldn't do any operations on
> > > strings that don't include * ? ...
> > 
> > Also [..].
> 
> Why is this needed?  I would expect we would expand anything without
> * ? or ...  

I meant something like [abcd]foo.  This requires a call to glob().

> > It's possible to make such a change in c1args.c, but it won't do much
> > good, since Sed arguments tend to include wildcard characters quite
> > often.
> 
> It would stop us from doing un-needed searches on all arguments and 
> speed up execution; If we quote the wildcard we wouldn't expand?

The case that hit Andris was already quoted, so obviously globbing is
not the reason here.  It's something else in the startup code.  I
guess we need to know the details about that 7143h call after all ;-)