Problem with wildcard from Windows

[Bengt Larsson]

Dave Korn wrote:
>Bengt Larsson wrote:
>
>> Every port of Unix utilities to Windows such as ls, grep and so forth do
>> this globbing internally.
>
>  No.  Not "every port".  Specifically, not Cygwin ones: they get it done for
>them, by the shell that launches them, or in fallback cases by the Cygwin DLL.

It depends on what you mean by "internally". I didn't mean it's in the
source code for ls(1) etc. I mean it from a users viewpoint, ie it isn't
already done by the shell for the application when it starts up. 

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