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From: leefi@microsoft.UUCP (Lee Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: re: fc and wildcards
Message-ID: <1102@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 15:35:09 GMT
References: <3762@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
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Keywords: won't work

In article <3762@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kahn@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Gary I Kahn) writes:
> 
> The MS/DOS 3.2 manual has examples of using the FC (file comparison)
> command with ambiguous file names. When I try to use wildcards (just
> like in the examples), the program gives me an "Unable to open
> text1.*", or something like that, and it aborts. Anyone have any
> comments? 

This is a documentation error, FC does not support wildcards. The
COMP utility does. In the past, the COMP utility was available with
IBM's PC-DOS whereas MS-DOS had FC. With MS-DOS v3.30, you get both.

-Lee
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