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From: rdas@hatter.Tops.Sun.COM (Robin Das)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What interprets *.*
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Date: 20 Sep 89 01:32:48 GMT
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In article <32164@ames.arc.nasa.gov> gahooten@titan (Gregory A. Hooten) writes:
>In Unix, it is the shell that interprets the character *, what in
>DOS will do the same thing?

COMMAND.COM does the * and ? processing in DOS.  If you want a program to 
do the same type of thing, the program must include the smarts.