Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/13/22:32:39
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jason White wrote:
> Command.com and other programmes that come with OpenDOS could also be
> modified to handle the asterisk wildcard properly. Currently, it matches
> all characters up to the end of the file name or extension, regardless of
> whether or not any characters are specified after the asterisk. This
> anomaly should be corrected.
Agreed, added to wishlist. 4DOS does this allready.
ie: copy *ile*.txt \
will copy files.txt, piles.txt, milej.txt, etc
> Also, it should be possible to match entire
> sets of characters, for example by giving the expression:
> chapter[1-9].txt
Also added to wishlist. 4DOS also does this allready. :o)
> Already, OpenDOS has extensive command line editing facilities. Perhaps
> file name completion could be added as well, or is this asking for too
> much?
No, not asking too much. Added to wishlist. But, once
again, 4DOS does this allready. :o)
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