Re: [Dev-C++] Automatic wildcard expansion

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

At 14.39 07/12/02 +0530, "Abhijit Shylanath" <mu...@gm...> wrote:
>If I run
>     makedict e d:\code\makedict\dict.txt *.txt
>my program receives it as
>
>-Start--------------------------
>arg 0: makedict
>arg 1: e
>arg 2: d:\code\makedict\dict.txt
>arg 3: dict.txt
>-Stop---------------------------
>
>I recall that this behaviour is a GCC feature, and I can bypass it by
>quoting the argument, but how can I explicitly tell the compiler to disable
>such expansion?

It is a feature of MinGW (because command.com does not deal with wildcards) 
which, I guess, can't be disabled for consistency with the Unix (where the 
shell expands wildcards and you prevent that by escaping special characters).

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Luigi