B19: * expansion problem in bash?

[Robert Lister]

Having just upgraded tp B19 (it rocks, the job control is much better!)

I am trying to use tar to, well, tar a directory containing some 
6,066 files.

- From bash: tar -cf March-1998.tar *

Tar happily starts doing tar-like things, but eventaully stops with 
something like this:

tar: Cannot add file ./Mar-1998/34E152: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

It's obvious that "./Mar-1998/34E152" is a partial filename.
(they all end in .TCP or .CCM)

Could it be that bash is truncating the command passed to tar, expanding

tar -cf March-1998.tar * to mean:

tar -cf March-1998.tar <every single filename......>

- Running the same tar command from NT's CMD.exe shell works okay (from
the same
  directory, since it doesn't understand "\"


So it isn't a problem with tar itself, but just with the line is it
being 
called with.

Any ideas, or is it something I'm missing?