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From: Curt Finch <curt@tkg.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: pdksh and expansion of metacharacters
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:16:28 -0600
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why is it exactly that 

gunzip<fred*
works just fine on pdksh

but 

gunzip<fred* | tar tvf -

doesn't?

has anyone already fixed this or am i just missing something rather
basic here?

-curt