Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!simpsong From: simpsong@ncoast.UUCP (Gregory R. Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unix-like global expansion in DOS Summary: What VMS wildcards? Keywords: MS-DOS Message-ID: <12900@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 12 Nov 88 15:43:58 GMT References: <215@lcuxa.UUCP> <16481@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: simpsong@ncoast.UUCP (Gregory R. Simpson @ The North Coast) Followup-To: comp.sys.vms Distribution: comp Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 25 In article <16481@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: >In article <215@lcuxa.UUCP> mike2@lcuxa.UUCP (M S Slomin) writes: >> >>Have you wished to be able to specify wildcards in DOS the way you >>can in Unix? > >Personally, I wish both UNIX and MS-DOS could expand wildcards like VMS. >I *hate* the useless destination restrictions in UNIX. > >Dr. Richard Link >University of California, Berkeley >link@ssl.berkeley.edu What VMS Wildcards? I can't even use the most simple wildcards, like cc *.c !!!! THat is considered wildcard expansion??? Follow-up to comp.sys.vms... this doesn't really need to be in comp.sys.ibm.pc... Greg -- --- Gregory R. Simpson Prefered Internet: SIMPSONG%LTD2.decnet@ge-crd.arpa UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!ltd2.decnet!simpsong UUCP: !cbosgd!ncoast!simpsong