Re: merging many files using mergecap

[Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Sake Blok wrote:
>
> > You might consider running Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) on your WIndows box, I don't have problems with this command in a 
> > Cygwin (bash) shell window. 
>
> UN*X shells expand wildcards in the shell, and pass the resulting list of file names to the application; Windows 
> console shells expect the application to do so.
>
> However, I had the impression that the Microsoft C/C++ startup code would expand wildcards before calling main(), so 
> that the UN*X way of doing things in an app (relying on wildcards being expanded for you) works.  It sounds as if 
> either
>
>       1) that's not the case
>
> or
>
>       2) you have to do something to enable it, and we're not doing so.

Suppossedly any Microsoft C program wanting command-line wildcard args 
to be expanded must be linked with setargv.obj

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8bch7bkk.aspx


I'll give it a try.


See also: thread starting at:  :) 
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200411/msg00159.html

I wonder why linking with setargv.obj wasn't/hasn't been done .....

Bill


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