Arthur S. Alexion on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:05:23 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] split & cat


1) I'm not sure what you mean by "real" DOS or DOS in the shell.  Do you
mean DOS in a window vs. booting to DOS?

2) I have never found '*' in the begining to work.  That is, I have not
found "dir *w.dll" to work, although "?w.txt" will work.

3) Other things I have found difficult to predict is the behavior with
files with multiple dots (e.g. "file.txt.bak", "file.*.bak" does not
seem to work.)

Art

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 07:17, Paul wrote:
> Are you talking about "real" DOS or DOS in the shell?  I use "dir *." to 
> list only directories in DOS.  Something like "dir *w.dll" also works. 
>  I don't know about putting the * in the middle.
> 
> Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> 
> >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.


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