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@subsection How does wildcarding (globbing) work?
@strong{(Please note: This section has not yet been updated for the latest
net release.)}
If an application using CYGWIN.DLL starts up, and can't find the
@code{PID} environment variable, it assumes that it has been started
from the a DOS style command prompt. This is pretty safe, since the
rest of the tools (including bash) set PID so that a new process knows
what PID it has when it starts up.
If the DLL thinks it has come from a DOS style prompt, it runs a
If the DLL thinks it was invoked from a DOS style prompt, it runs a
`globber' over the arguments provided on the command line. This means
that if you type @code{LS *.EXE} from DOS, it will do what you might
expect.