Date: Thu, 29 Jan 98 21:56:26 PST
From: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>
Subject:  Re: *argv[] help! 
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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--- On 29 Jan 1998 06:58:46 GMT  George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> 
wrote:

>DJGPP performs command-line globbing automatically, like Unix shells
>do.  This means that if you give a wildcard on the command line it
>will be expanded into the list of files matching the wildcard -- so in
>your case argv[1] would be the first, argv[2] the second, etc.

Can I use the automatic globbing for more than one argument with wildcards?
Let's say my command line is:

foo *.c *.bck

I guess I'll get the matching files of both arguments in argv[i], but how 
would I know then where goes the line between *.c's globbed arguments and 
*.bck's?

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