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RE: Newbie half off topic: '*' substituted by 'c'
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- Subject: RE: Newbie half off topic: '*' substituted by 'c'
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:01:26 -0800 (PST)
--- "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg.Schaible@gft.com> wrote:
> Hi Keyser,
>
> > And there's no way to make it accept * instead of '*' ?
> > I compiled it in Turbo C++ and it works with *
>
> This is not a problem of the application or gcc, it is the difference of teh
> shell! _Bash_ will expand * to all file names.
>
While on the other had CMD.EXE/COMMAND.COM don't expand * to a list of file
names. And if you ran your Turbo C++ built program using the bash shell it too
would get a list of files.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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