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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: globbing in the shell (Was Re: more rm insanity)
Message-ID: <1688@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 87 05:12:14 GMT
References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> <9555@mimsy.UUCP> <890@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <9610@mimsy.UUCP> <8111@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8111@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP 
(Dick St.Peters) writes:
>(It pains me to say it, but I think you can get the
>unglobbed command line in VMS: lib$get_command or some such.)

In the VMS environment, "unglobbed" does not mean "ungarbled".
Anything that isn't quoted, VMS changes to uppercase before you get to
see it.  Staunch VMS defenders consider this to be a highly desirable
feature.  Ahem.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi