On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On ms-dos 6.22 using dir * is the same as use dir *.* >> On Freedos dir * is the same as dir *. > > Maybe related to a FreeCOM command.com issue: MS DOS command.com > has some extra handling for "implicit wildcards", see Bugzilla: > > http://bugzilla.freedos.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1139 > In MS DOS, you can say "DIR .COM" as shorthand for "DIR *.COM". > > There is another, probably even more appropriate, item in Bugzilla > which was flagged as "duplicate of 1139" while it is not really: > > http://bugzilla.freedos.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1835 > In MS WINDOWS, you can say "DIR FOO*" as shorthand for "DIR FOO*.*"
There's a neat summary of MS-DOS wildcard handling at http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/12/17/6785519.aspx (See the example of "A*B.TXT".) But I don't recall MS-DOS wildcards that way. I remember "DIR *" was the same as "DIR *." not "DIR *.*". I guess I'm wrong. But since FreeDOS Beta1, I haven't booted MS-DOS on any of my systems. :-) -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
