It may be a know problem, but not on my w2k box. I just ran this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

for (@ARGV) {
    for (glob) {
        print $_,"\n";
    }
}
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and it worked as expected. The command line was 'pal.pl * web\*.pgn'.

–hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing…it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."