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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dillon Shell V2.10 and V2.11
Message-ID: <8810281908.AA28034@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 28 Oct 88 19:08:21 GMT
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macdonald@mtwain.dec.com (Paul MacDonald - CUP/ML - 223-3439) Writes:
:DI l*
:
:As with V2.07 I would naturally expect to see a listing containing
:only those files and directories beginning with the letter l.
:Instead, the entire directory lists. When I run the command a second
:time, it works as I would have expected to.

	This is a known bug... Drew fixed it in his ver but I never
fixed it in mine.  If *no* files in the wildcard could be found then
the command is still run (without arguments), thus you get 'dir' with
no arguments which lists the current directory.

:Another problem occurs when I attempt to DELETE several files, particular
:those with long filenames.
:
:DEL *.HDR
:
:does not delete all the files ending with .HDR. It deletes some, but not
:all. Running the command a second time appears to delete the remaining files
:ending in .HDR.
:
:Any thoughts on this?

	Try using the internal shell command 'rm', or alias it to 'del' if
that is what you are used to.  External commands can only have command line
lengths of 202 or so chars (BCPL limitation), while internal commands are
not as limited.

>Paul

					-Matt