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Article #33301Re: More Gulam problems
From: Lee Dickey
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1988 13:32
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1988 13:32
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In article <19880719193319.2.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
| I recently discovered why my ARC was behaving so strangely. When I tell
| gulam "arc a foo *.c" gulam attempts to expand the "*.c" into "foo.c
| bar.c baz.c ...", and substitute that list of file names into the
| arglist before starting up ARC. the problem, of course, is that if
| you've got very may files, gulam comes up with a ridiculously long
| arglist, and ends up trying to call ARC with a bogus argstring, or
| otherwise getting confused.
| [...]
| ... Does anyone know if it's possible [ to disable this feature ] ?
Try
arc a foo '*.c'
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L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: More Gulam problems Message-ID: <1707@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 20 Jul 88 13:32:28 GMT References: <19880719193319.2.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21