Gregory Stigers wrote:

> My understanding of the following is courtesy of The UNIX-Haters
> Handbook.

Hah! There's a book for MPE weenies ...
But, I mean, it's not fair. Why isn't there a MPE-haters book ?? ;-)

> One problem is the difference between UNIX and most every
> other operating system in the world: most OSs let the individual command
> parse wildcards, whereas UNIX expect the shell to parse wildcards.

That's really just a convention, UNIX couldn't give a toss about that.
You might just as easily turn this feature off by issuing "set -f" in the shell,
and let every program invent the wheel for itself.

        Chris