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> From: "Jeffrey Powell" <j-powell AT pb DOT jp DOT nec DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:04:19 +0900
> 
> This is consistent with the Unix side of things not the DOS side where you
> have to specifically link in an object file to give the same functionality.

Correct.  DJGPP is explicitly Posix-compliant as much as it can.  If
DJGPP programs didn't expand wildcards automatically, they could never
be used in Makefile's and shell scripts which were written for Unix.