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Subject: Re: Long delays running SED under Win98SE
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:39:11 -0600 (CST)
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> I meant something like [abcd]foo.  This requires a call to glob().

Okay, understood.  And that would require a call to findfirst to
see which ones would match.

> > 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 ;-)

I'm saying we shouldn't be trying to findfirst at all on an argument
if it doesn't contain things which could be expanded.  (I think we
agree here.. and there is just some bug in the startup code)