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in thread system and wildcard expansion?

Yes - rofv's reply is likely spot on. A unixish echo.exe in the path that does the command-line globbing itself would explain what happens.

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Re^4: system and wildcard expansion?
by MishaMoose (Scribe) on Nov 11, 2010 at 14:35 UTC

    Agreed! I find windows pathing to be rather less than transparent. I tend to get bitten by it much more often than I ought.

    Misha/Michael - Russian student, grognard, bemused observer of humanity and self professed programmer with delusions of relevance
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