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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:49, Bob Schwier wrote:
> Okay,
> DOS does wildcards but not as politely as Linux. In a Linux or Unix
> environment, I can type ls w*.txt and get results. DOS only permits me to
> type either dir word.* or *.txt to get results.
> bs
That's not true.
w*.txt
will give you results. What DOS cannot do with the '*' wildcard is use
it in the middle or begining of the criterion. For instance,
w*d.txt and *d.txt
will not work, but
w??d.txt and w*.txt will.
Art
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