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From: dmm0t@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dave Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Unix command globbing for MS-DOS
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Date: 17 May 91 16:21:48 GMT
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In article <1991May16.144701.10301@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> skesterk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane Kesterke) writes:
>I still had to type *.* for a wildcard. Can anyone direct me to a handy
>program that will allow the freedom of command globbing and Unix wildcards?

I don't know of a program that does this well in general - I don't
think 4DOS does it very well at all.  A partial solution is the
GNUish utilities - rm, cp, mv, and so on - will handle wildcards 
like you want them to.  You can get them from simtel20 (msdos.gnuish).

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