Bruce responds:
> Gavin writes:
> >Unix sucks.
>
> This is one instance where MPE, more or less by accident, comes out
> way ahead of Unix. Since the MPE CI doesn't think its job includes
> expanding file lists, and since lots of C programs are written
> expecting file lists in command lines to be expanded, the good
> folks who wrote the MPE C run-time library implemented a solution.
> If you link your MPE C program with LIBCWC.LIB.SYS before whatever
> other libraries you normally use, the wildcard expansion is done by
> the library so the command line length limitation isn't an issue
> when an expanded file list includes hundreds or thousands of files.

Um, doesn't this fail on the 1024th file?

G.