> > > > 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.
>
>
> That may be true. But why didn't you answer my original question?
I just reworded my response (which term didn't you understand?)
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