On 8/14/07, demerphq <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/14/07, Andy Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14 Aug 2007, at 16:17, demerphq wrote: > > > Hah!, so there is something the win32 shell does better than *nixy > > > ones. I knew there had to be something. :-) > > > > Does cmd.exe actually do wildcard expansion? I though programs had to > > do that for themselves. > > Thats the whole point. By doing it themselves there is no danger of > having an argument list too long because of trying to operate on an > overly long directory.
Although in this context "doing it by themselves" means using the results returned by FindFirstFile(), FindNextFile() and FindClose(). Which isn't all that much really. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
