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From: creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Filename expansion missing from MSDOS gawk, version 2.11
Keywords: gawk, filename
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Date: 29 Jun 90 14:20:49 GMT
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In article <1990Jun28.103243.7818@warwick.ac.uk> bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) writes:
>On a UNIX system a command of the form
>        gawk -f process.awk data*.*
>has the wildcard filename expansion dealt with by the UNIX shell.
>
>On an MSDOS system, at least with version 3.xx, there is no such shell
>expansion.  Instead, wildcards are dealt with *within*each*application*

   If you are using Microsoft C, you can include the file SETARGV.OBJ
when you link the program together. This file should be on one of your
library disks for MSC. Of course, this only gives you wimpy MSDOS wildcard
expansion, but it's better than nothing.

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