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From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of 4DOS questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.123456.15064@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: 19 Feb 91 12:34:56 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.130142.1@linus.claremont.edu> <1991Feb17.123613.44571@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Organization: British Telecom Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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In article <1991Feb17.123613.44571@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ff76@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
>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).

Except for many external Commands! What you need is a feature that is even present
in command.com, the for statement:

	for %C in (*.*) do cmd %C

Then using 4dos I have aliased this as follows:

	alias wild=for %%C in (%2) do %1 %%C %3 %4 %5

so I can now say (for example):

	wild type *.c

Where type is actually an alias to a smooth scrolling type program which doesn't
take wild cards. You can improve on this in any way you like and by using the
4dos @substr command you can do almost anything!


Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@rtf.bt.co.uk