Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More Gulam problems
Message-ID: <1707@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 88 13:32:28 GMT
References: <19880719193319.2.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <19880719193319.2.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
| I recently discovered why my ARC was behaving so strangely.  When I tell
| gulam "arc a foo *.c" gulam attempts to expand the "*.c" into "foo.c
| bar.c baz.c ...", and substitute that list of file names into the
| arglist before starting up ARC.  the problem, of course, is that if
| you've got very may files, gulam comes up with a ridiculously long
| arglist, and ends up trying to call ARC with a bogus argstring, or
| otherwise getting confused.
|  [...]
|  ... Does anyone know if it's possible [ to disable this feature ] ?


Try
		arc a foo '*.c'


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