Message-Id:	<199706171145.KAA02817@lince.las.es>
From:	"Rafa Gawenda" <rgawenda AT pobox DOT com>
To:	"Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
Cc:	"opendos AT delorie DOT com" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 97 10:44:37 -0200
Reply-To:	"Rafa Gawenda" <rgawenda AT pobox DOT com>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: command.com compatibility

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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:39:43 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote:

>One oddity of msdos 6.22 I found today involves the
>msdos find command.
>If a directory has 4 files in it that have
>file extensions of .1, and a find command is
>issued targeting those files msdos reports no files found.
>The specific command I used was:
>find /i "begin" *.1 <cr>
>The specific files were part of Mike Arst's u-sedit.zip
>package found on the simtel mirrors.  Interestingly, an analogous grep
>command didn't fail.

The MSDOS "find" command never did manage multiple files, as DRDOS did.
If my memory still works fine, I think the "type" command has the same problem, you'll need 
the "for" help in Micro$oft DOS

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