Paul on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:15:12 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] split & cat


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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