Re: [PLUG] split & cat

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

A1. By "real" DOS I mean the versions of DOS that come with Windows.  I 
don't really remember the behavior of and can't test any commands on DOS 
6.22 or older.  DOS in the shell, from what I was told, refers to DOS 
commands under Linux.

A2. I think the * at the beginning must have worked for me because I 
used commands like "dir *." more in the past when working on non-Windows 
and early Windows PCs.

A3. Yeah, it seems that *.*  is not the same as just * as it is for 
Linux.  What about "dir *.*.bak"?  I'll have to try it some time under 
XP.  (XP seems to be using Windows ME's version of DOS.)


Arthur S. Alexion wrote:

> 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.)
>  

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