From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T21:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Spawning

On Sunday 18 December 2005 04:46 am, Florian Frank wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> >I converted the array of arguments to a string, and it worked.
> > But it should have worked the other way too. What am I missing?
>
> exec *argarray

Confirmed! Thanks Florian.

Now I can run a command with several words quoted together to make 
one argument.

Curious -- what does the asterisk do to make it work when it didn't 
work without the asterisk. What does the asterisk do? I know it 
doesn't mean "the contents of this address" -- that's another 
language :-)

SteveT

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