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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
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Date: 27 Mar 90 18:39:52 GMT
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In article <18888@boulder.Colorado.EDU> scholes@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE) writes:
>
>  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

No, please don't!  There would go the possibility of positional parameters
for commands, and we'd be stuck with Unix-style ugly option switches.
We'd lose the knowledge of what the user actually typed, and
get stuck with all the horrible escape sequences you have to use in 
Unix shells just to type special characters in a command.

What would be nice is if the Find First and Find Next services could support
more patterns in filenames.  Just don't go messing with the command line.

Duncan Murdoch