From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: BUG: DJGPP, argc and *
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:20:57 -0700
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Kappas Ioannis wrote:

> when we call the program with the asterisk, e.g. "a *" the argc is
> returning
> 109 instead of 2. Is this normal or is this a bug??

This is normal for DJGPP, because DJGPP is doing globbing with your
command line options.  See the info pages for how to disable it.

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