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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.183207.9652@mks.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 18:32:07 GMT
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Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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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:
>>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

>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 escape sequences?  Just put quotes around the argument or
"set noglob" for csh or "set -o noglob" for ksh to prevent the shell
from expanding the command-line arguments.  These are all shell
features and I can't think of a reason why Microsoft could not have
more than one shell.  Leave command.com the way it is and provide
another shell in addition to command.com or provide better support
in DOS for third party shells.
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