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From: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wildcard expansion for any command, w/DLC source
Summary: Ability already exists in DOS
Message-ID: <3748@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 19:14:51 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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The functionality of this program is already available in the (MS/PC)-DOS
FOR command.  As an example:

FOR %i IN (*.TXT) DO FIND "string" %i

Admittedly, this syntax isn't as nice as the submitted program's, but at
least DOS will do what the author wanted.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM