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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: 23 Feb 2007 08:45:58 -0600
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In article <wcc1wkhlln0.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> 
>> Too bad that Unix behaviour was wrong in the first place...
> 
> I agree with JP Rosen, here.  The way wildcards work in Unix is
> completely broken.  (Not that I'm advocating Windows instead!)

Why would we assume there was only a single alternative to Unix ?