On 2013-11-29 20:15, Matt Welland wrote:
Windows cmd.exe leaves wildcard expansion to the application, a choice that seems really moronic to me but perhaps there was a good reason for it.
It makes sense, but only in the context of another choice. Going back to MS-DOS days, and into the early days of Windows, the buffer to hold the command line was only 255 characters long, and shell globbing could easily need more space than that.
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