Confirmed. Single quotes work on Win7.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Scott Robison <sc...@scottrobison.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Scott Robison <sc...@scottrobison.us> wrote:
>>> I believe the glob-style wildcard pattern matching is being performed
>>> by mingw during program startup before handing control over to main
>>> (because cmd.exe does not do wildcard expansion itself in either
>>> Windows 7 or XP).
>>
>> And, I would guess that cmd.exe is stripping off the "s.
>>
>> So, maybe:
>>
>> fossil setting crnl-glob "'*'"
>>
>> would work. After cmd.exe strips off the "s, 's would still be there
>> to protect the * from mingw.
>
> Ah, excellent point. cmd.exe strips quotes so that there is a way to
> embed separator characters such as space in a command line argument.
>
> In any case, I just tested and it appears that using single quotes
> instead of double quotes is sufficient to get the asterisk through the
> command line processing software stack.
>
> SDR
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