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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Line on windows
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On Sep 12, 8:18 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> RasikaSriniva...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > but it appears the wildcard is always "expanded to the list of file
> > names". for example, i create test_cli.adb with the following :
>
> This appears to be a "feature" of GNAT, apparently to make programs behave the
> same on Windows as on Linux, where wildcards are expanded by the shell.

You can get around this by calling GetCommandLine yourself; this will
get Windows to give you the original command line, unprocessed by
GNAT.  See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683156(VS.85).aspx

But you'll have to deal with the null terminator yourself
(Interfaces.C.Strings should help here) and parse the arguments
yourself.

                               -- Adam