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Thu Apr 12 16:07:01 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/095981.html

Paul Prescodwrote:
> It's simply Windows versus Unix. On Unix the *shell* does globbing. The
> program never sees the unexpanded filename. On Windows, the application
> must do globbing (if it wants to).

to be precise, it's a linking issue.  to get globbing behaviour, just
link the executable with setargv.obj (provided with visual C).

for some reason, GvR didn't want this as a default.  cannot recall
his arguments, though...

Cheers /F

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