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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of 4DOS questions
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Date: 18 Feb 91 04:17:16 GMT
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dhosek@linus.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:

> Does anybody have a non-interactive version of the 4DOS select
> command? I would like to be able to get the equivalent of
> SELECT cmd (*.something)
> <hit space on every name>
> without having to enter the menu. When I use SELECT, I seldom do
> anything other than hit space with every file name.

Try using a for construct...

FOR %i in (*.something) cmd %i

That should meet your requirements.

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