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Probelm setting a variable to $* in C Shell

Trying to put all command line arguments to the script in a variable msgst01

$* does not seem to work

Code:
set msgst01 = $*

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Old 09-05-2010
Code:
set msgst01 = "$*"

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Old 09-05-2010
Brilliant!!!
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