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From: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.023029.2834@calvin.spp.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 90 02:30:29 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain)
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In article <1828@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>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
>
>No, please don't!  ........
.............
>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.

Check out the WILDUNIX program posted to cbip last year sometime. It is TSR
that traps findfirst and findnext and does the Right Thing.

Unfortunately, it confuses WordPerfect for some reason I never figured out.
Everything else seems to work with it.

Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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