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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: File name substitution - perl-3.0 pl8 on Sun4 OS4
Message-ID: <6681@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 28 Dec 89 00:53:40 GMT
References: <3142@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <3142@taux01.UUCP> crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
: The following problem occurs under a SunOS 4.0.3c, on a SPARCstation 1.
: 
: Script started on Tue Dec 26 11:29:04 1989
: tasu74 % cat try
: #!/users/c764/crehta/perl
: 
: while (<*.c>) {
: 	print $_,"\n";
: }
: 
: tasu74 % ls -F
: a.c		b.c		c.c		try*		typescript
: tasu74 % try
: *.c: Ambiguous.
: tasu74 % ^D
: script done on Tue Dec 26 11:29:39 1989
: 
: The same "try" perl script listed a.c, b.c and c.c correctly on 
: a Sun3 under OS 3.5 .

Are you running with a non-standard csh?  I can't reproduce it on my
SPARCstation.  It acts like *.c is being fed to some csh command that
only expects one argument, such a 'cd'.

In evalargs.xc, you should have some lines that read:

    #ifdef CSH
			    str_nset(tmpstr,cshname,cshlen);
			    str_cat(tmpstr," -cf 'set nonomatch; glob ");
			    str_scat(tmpstr,str);
			    str_cat(tmpstr,"'|");
    #else

Check for corruption in your copy.  You might do
    printf("%s",tmpstr->str_ptr);
to find out what it's trying to execute.

Larry