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Re: [PATCH] AmigaOS 4 port contribution
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
...
> As for your hidden agenda to discredit all OSs that do not follow The
> Unix Way, consider one of the points the Unix Hater's Handbook
> addresses:
>
> find . -name *.c -print
>
> The fact that the application has absolutely no control over how the
> command line is interpreted is IMHO one of the worst "features" unix
> forces on its users. DJGPP applications, OTOH, can choose how much
> automatic processing the command line gets.
You may be surprised to hear that I agree with this (with caveats
having to do with being able to tell the difference between a file
literally named "*.c" and a wildcard argument). But this is totally
orthogonal to the question of argument strings versus argument
vectors.
zw