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From: sjt@sb6.UUCP (SIDNEY THOMPSON)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: Wild Cards in OS-9 file names?
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Date: Tue, 18-Oct-83 08:44:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 18 08:44:45 1983
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 You are correct about there not being any wild cards in OS9.
 There is one program (DSAVE) which will generate a file of the
 current and all lower directorys of the form:
 copy /dir/file  file
 you then chd to the directory to which you wish to place the files
 and then execute the file generated by dsave.
 I have used this file and a good editor (ie not the OS9 edit) to
 globaly change the copy to del or anything else you may wish to do.
 All in all this is a real pain.

 Also you can't copy a file to a directory if the file name already
 exist without first deleting the original file as a seperate function.

 Sidney Thompson
 sb1!sb6!sjt
 24-r-77 sbc
 Atlanta, Ga.