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Okay, Win95 provided a really sucky version of Dos 4 which did not provide
much of the command set. At some point they figured out that the poor
slobs who had to use it needed a working attrib command among other
things. Win 95B and Win98 provided some of those utillties.
It's been years and beers but those bad memories of Win95 just don't go
away.
bs
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Paul wrote:
> 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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