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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Command line arguements?
Summary: Build your own operating system
Message-ID: <1991May31.143023.9835@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 31 May 91 14:30:23 GMT
References: <24632@lanl.gov> <1991May30.174626.12965@cs.dal.ca> <24713@lanl.gov>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <24713@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>As I said above, the _shell_ processes the command line before I get to
>look at it.  So, getarg() and iargc() don't give me the arguments that
>the user typed, they give me the _processed_ arguments.  This means that
>my command line syntax has to avoid quotes, backslashes, wildcard characters,
>and probably a few other things.

So write your own operating system.  Or insert the command "set noglob"
in your startup file (most shells have this or an equivalent).
Operating systems offer features, why use one that offers features you
don't like?  Switch to MS-DOS if "set noglob" is too hard for you.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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