Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Globbing Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <17602@lanl.gov> <18205@lanl.gov> <18365@lanl.gov> <20057@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 16:04:17 GMT In article <20057@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: > If people break the rules, then the rules are broken, and bad things > result (at least inconsistency). The same thing happens in Unix, though it's > often ignored. Or fixed, since it's usually in a shell script. > If you're designing a system (not Unix) you can design it > such that when a wildcarded argument is expanded/processed, all the expanded > results are quoted such that the expander won't expand them again. Can't be done. Both Lattice and Aztec compilers strip quotes from the command line before passing argv/argc to the program, so when it runs it will expand them again willy-nilly. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"