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author | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2019-11-11 02:19:38 +0100 |
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committer | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2019-11-11 02:19:38 +0100 |
commit | 0e94aa69195b1a3f17abb486db67fe5e3b0928e5 (patch) | |
tree | 517efd50cfd3cd9a5dbe1e6c03cd245d746d4030 | |
parent | 5e6dfc938e7d7556a96a3743eb20470e2c03e9cf (diff) | |
download | qpdf-0e94aa69195b1a3f17abb486db67fe5e3b0928e5.tar.zst |
Fix up documentation around Windows wildcard fix
-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/qpdf-manual.xml | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -3,14 +3,9 @@ * 9.1.rc1: release * Improve behavior of wildcard expansion for msvc executable when - run from the Windows cmd.exe shell. The behavior is not identical - to UNIX or to running the mingw executable in that, for msvc, - wildcard expansion is performed transparently by qpdf.exe itself. - That means that *.pdf and "*.pdf*" are interpreted identically. If - you need to specify the name of a file that has a * or ? in its - actual filename on the Windows CLI with the msvc-built executable, - you can write the name of the file in another file and use the - @file syntax to prevent expansion. Fixes #224. + run from the Windows cmd.exe shell. Unlike in UNIX environments, + Windows leaves it up to the executable to expand its own + wildcards. Fixes #224. * When reading /P from the encryption dictionary, use static_cast instead of QIntC to convert the value to a signed integer. The diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml index 4a817269..24747159 100644 --- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml +++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml @@ -4687,9 +4687,9 @@ print "\n"; </listitem> <listitem> <para> - Improve shell wildcard expansion behavior - (<literal>*</literal> and <literal>?</literal>) of the - <command>qpdf.exe</command> as built my MSVC. + Fix shell wildcard expansion behavior (<literal>*</literal> + and <literal>?</literal>) of the <command>qpdf.exe</command> + as built my MSVC. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> |