>
> Mark wrote:
> I've been using Lynx since mid-1996. If I recall correctly, the earlier
> versions of Lynx weren't capable of interpreting the below address. Lynx
> seemed not to like question marks, equal signs, .dll, etc. in the address.
>
> http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ChangeEmailConfirm
>
> Today when I used the above address, it worked fine. When did this become
> possible? (or am I just remembering incorrectly?)
>
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > you may not have quoted the address, so your shell tried to expand the
> > question marks.
>
>
> Why would you say something like that? I keyed in the address exactly as
> worded above.
Unix shells expand '?' as a wildcard matching any single character.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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