rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler) (04/02/91)
I have Gulam version 1.04.05 and just recently noticed some anomalous behavior. For example, dcp foo bar '-*.o' passes "foo bar '-*.o'" to the program, while .\dcp foo bar '-*.o' passes "foo bar -*.o" instead. I would prefer the latter rendering, but if I leave out the single quotes, Gulam says "'-*.o' failed" and never executes the program. Can anyone make sense out of this or offer any suggestions that would, no matter how the program is invoked, guarantee the second expansion? Of course, this begs the question: is there a (more recent) version of Gulam which behaves more consistently? Now that we have MiNT and Bash/ksh, this becomes merely a curiosity, but I am curious all the same! Actually, more than curious, because I plan to release this program as shareware soon and would like to have a good answer for Gulam users. 'Thank you for your support.' -- Roy Bixler rcb@netcom.com -or- (UUCP) uunet!apple!netcom!rcb "Just when you think you know it all, it changes!"