> > Mark wrote:
> > I've been using Lynx since mid-1996. If I recall correctly, the earlier
> > versions of Lynx weren't capable of interpreting the below address. Lynx
> > seemed not to like question marks, equal signs, .dll, etc. in the address.
> >
> > http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ChangeEmailConfirm
> >
> > Today when I used the above address, it worked fine. When did this become
> > possible? (or am I just remembering incorrectly?)
> >
> > > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > > you may not have quoted the address, so your shell tried to expand the
> > > question marks.
> >
> >
> > Why would you say something like that? I keyed in the address exactly as
> > worded above.
>
> Unix shells expand '?' as a wildcard matching any single character.
That may be true. But why didn't you answer my original question?
I don't need mumbo jumbo. I need a simple answer to a simple question.
