From: "Graeme Fenwick" <gfenwick AT BYESPAMprimex DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: /? command line args being altered by DJGPP
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 23:39:27 -0000
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Erik Max Francis wrote in message <363CB965 DOT 61B40E2D AT alcyone DOT com>...
:Eli Zaretskii wrote:
:
:> The DJGPP FAQ explains that the DJGPP behavior in these cases is like
:> that of Bourne shell, Bash, and their ilk.  Csh, tcsh and their family
:> are those which say "No match" and refuse to run the command.
:
:. . . and zsh, which is the shell that I run.  zsh is based on sh, but
:has some [t]csh features in it -- I tend to forget that it's a hybrid
:sometimes.


Okay, thanks for the feedback on this- I've solved the problem, and my
program is now complete and perfect (yeah, right! There's still a minor bug
that I might be more willing to correct if it was a more heavyweight
program, but as it stands...). I'll see about putting it onto the net for
FTP at some point.

I'm not sure how I feel about this automatic globbing. As I understand your
replies, UNIX has many different shells available, and most of them glob
arguments to a program. DJGPP is trying to retain compatiblity with UNIX, so
it has globbing, but dealt with by the compiler, and not the OS (since this
is not MSDOS behaviour). Hmm...

Anyway, despite that niggle I still like DJGPP (it's free!- how many things
can you say that about?!) and I've learned a bit more...

Graeme Fenwick - gfenwick AT BYESPAMprimex DOT co DOT uk
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