in reply to How can I stop ARGV from globbing all over the place?

This is an issue with the command-line, not perl. Two solutions that spring to mind are literal quoting the arguments e.g 
microgen -cf '*.cfg' -cf /users/someone/goofy.cfg -ts '*.vh'

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Or using one of the Getopt:: modules.
HTH

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