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From: Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh@mhonline.net>
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Subject: Re: ot, a programming question
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Greg -
You are looking in the wrong place. It is the shell that expands
the wildcards before the application is even invoked.
Chuck


On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There is something that's been eating away at my cariousity for the last few days, and I just had to ask the below.
> Say you run a program such as mpg123 or any other program which minipulates files, and you pass it *.*, or my?.mp3 to open. How does it parce that to get a list of files that match *.* or my?.mp3? I tried looking for mpg123 code that does that, but couldn't find it.
> Could someone please enlighten me, I'm very much interested. Thanks.
> Greg
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