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From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: conventions regarding quoted arguments to DOS commands
Message-ID: <535@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 05:03:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.535
Posted: Sun Jun  9 05:03:17 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 08:46:18 EDT
References: <715@pyuxqq.UUCP> <646@digi-g.UUCP>
Reply-To: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller)
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
Lines: 38
Keywords: MSC

In article <646@digi-g.UUCP> dan@digi-g.UUCP (dan) writes:
>In article <715@pyuxqq.UUCP> ral@pyuxqq.UUCP (R A Levenberg) writes:
>it.  It is code that is added by the C compiler that is doing the parsing
>before calling main() of the application.  So it is up to the C compiler
>to recognize quotes.  Your above example works fine under DOS if you use
>the MS version 3 C with "...".  It doesn't recognize '...'.  Also, "s will
>prevent DOS from acting on <, > and |.
>
>>A related question is the evalution of, say, *.c, on a command line.
>>DOS (actually command.com) will tell the invoked program its argument
>>is "*.c", whereas the UNIX shell will tell the invoked program its arguments
>>are, say, main.c, foo.c and bar.c.  Does this mean that DOS programs
>>use those SYSINT system calls themselves to get first matching file name
>>and next matching file name whenever an argument contains wild card
>>characters?
>
>Afraid so.  I heard a rumor once that the MS ver 3 C would expand match
>characters.  I've tried it, and it doesn't.  
>
>Dan Messinger
>ihnp4!umn-cs!digi-g!dan

Sorry to differ with you Dan, but MSC version 3.0 DOES do wildcard
matching but you have to link in a 'varargs.obj' file that comes
with the compiler.  Then *.c expands to all .c files in your current
directory.  Since the expansion is done after the commandline is
passed to your program, this is also a way to get around the 127(?)
character command line limit.

As is also mentioned above, MSC also correctly handles a command line
argument like "a b c".

	Don Kneller
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