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From: bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: An MS-DOS Fright
Message-ID: <101000045@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 89 18:32:20 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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What version of DOS are you using?  I just tried what you described
on a directory containing four files:

   X.WRK
   Y.WRK
   A.FOO
   B.FOO
   C
   D

On two different machines, I got the following results:

	Command		Under PC-DOS 3.20	Under MS-DOS 2.11
	-----------     -------------------     -------------------

	del */wrk	"Invalid parameter"	C and D are deleted,
						files with extensions
						remain untouched.

	del *\wrk	"Invalid directory"	"Invalid directory"

	del *		C and D are deleted,	C and D are deleted,
			files with extensions	files with extensions
			remain untouched.	remain untouched.


These look more or less like what I'd expect.

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Bill Frolik	Hewlett-Packard Co.
hp-pcd!bill	Corvallis, Oregon