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     You can use the wild-card characters──the question mark (?) and
     the asterisk (*)──to specify file-name and path-name arguments on
     the command line.
 
     Command-line arguments are handled by a routine called _setargv,
     which by default does not expand wild cards into separate strings
     in the argv string array. You can replace the normal _setargv with
     a more powerful version that does handle wild cards by linking
     with the SETARGV.OBJ file. See the example program TYPEIT.C for
     an example of wild-card processing.
 
     You can link with SETARGV.OBJ in the PWB environment by adding
     SETARGV.OBJ to the program list for your program. You must specify
     the complete path or put SETARGV.OBJ in the current directory.
     You must also turn off the Extended Dictionary flag within the
     PWB environment, or use the /NOE linker option outside the
     environment. For example,
 
          cl typeit.c setargv /link /NOE
 
     The wild-card characters are expanded in the same manner as in
     MS-DOS or OS/2. (See your DOS user's guide if you are unfamiliar
     with these characters.) Enclosing an argument in quotation marks
     (" ") suppresses the wild-card expansion. Within quoted arguments,
     you can represent quotation marks literally by preceding the
     double-quotation-mark character with a backslash (\).
 
     If no matches are found for the wild-card argument, the argument
     is passed literally.
 
     See also: ◄Suppressing Command-Line Processing►
               ◄Parsing Command-Line Arguments►
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