On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ron Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Scott Robison <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
