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From: ff76@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of 4DOS questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.123613.44571@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 12:30:13 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.130142.1@linus.claremont.edu>
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In article <1991Feb16.130142.1@linus.claremont.edu>, 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.

Huh?  Why not use :     DEL *.something

or, for more fun  :     Except (Letter*.*  *.BAK) DEL *.*

    (Use any command instead of DEL, with corresponding results).
> 
> On an unrelated note (other than it's also a 4DOS Q), is there a
> DESQview-specific version of the 4DOS Help program? I'd like to
> have help running in its own DESQview window if it's at all
> possible.
> 
> -dh
> 
> ---
> Don Hosek                                          | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
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