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From: scholes@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
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Date: 27 Mar 90 06:26:39 GMT
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In article <2019@clyde.concordia.ca> smw@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
>BACKGROUND:
>
>1)  *** Gordon Letwin asks for desired DOS enhancements. 
>2)  >>  I replied with a couple of thoughts, to get a discussion started.  
>3)  >   Marshall Buhl (marshall@wind55.seri.gov) added some good ideas.  
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  Ok, here's another nice option that UNIX has, and I wish DOS had...
Command line filename expansion.  Let DOS put the file names on the command
line with all of the wonderfull regular expressions of UNIX, like
del filever.00[123]  that would be nice.    Marty