[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Dot arguments expanded during launch

[Barry Lay <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a program that expects a regular expression as part of its 
command-line arguments.  When I tried putting ".*" in the Program 
Arguments section of the Run Dialog, the program actually gets 
".classpath .project .settings" as arguments.  I can't find where this 
behaviour is documented; all of the variables seem to be of the form 
"${whatever}".

Can this "feature" be disabled?

I have seen this on both 3.2 and 3.3.

Thanks.