Hi Blair,
As far as I know, these two are equivalent:
DEL *.*
DEL *.*A
I think it's a well known DOS issue that everything after '*' is ignored
( I once heard the functional (non technical) explanation for this:
DEL *.*A
is
DEL ????????.A
and
DEL ????????.?A
and
DEL ????????.??A
and
DEL ????????.???A
(that is, DEL *.*)
and
...
Aitor
Blair Campbell escribió:
When using the command "del *.*~" in a directory where files were
present both ending with '~' and not ending with '~', I discovered
that FreeCOM (the latest version from fdos.org/kernel) treated the
command as "del *.*" and deleted ALL of the files in the directory
(after warning me that it would delete "*.*~"). I would consider this
very serious as VIM creates files ending with ~ as backup files and I
often use that command to get rid of those files.
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