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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Yet another bug in VMS C
Message-ID: <907@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 23:15:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.907
Posted: Thu Jul 30 23:15:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 08:27:40 EDT
References: <880@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 18

Summary:


In article <880@bsu-cs.UUCP> I wrote:
>I have discovered truly bizarre behavior in C for VAX/VMS.  The
>command-line arguments are folded to all lowercase.

Thanks to all who sent email setting me straight.  The problem lies in
the VAX/VMS command interpreter, which folds the command line to
uppercase.  I was also given to understand by several people that this
is a desirable feature rather than a bug.  The work-around is to put
double quotes around arguments.

Aside:  I was intrigued to find that

     $ dir "*.doc"

won't give me a directory listing.  Without the double quotes it works
fine.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi