stan brown

In 4DOS, when I typed e.g. "DIR ABC" it would give me a directory
of all files whose names atart ABC; effectively it aded a * to the
end. 4NT doesn't do that.

Obviously it's not that big a deal to type the star myself -- but
remembering it is tough.(*) Is there some setting in 4NT to tell it
to do DIR commands the 4DOS way, giving everything that _starts_
with the stated token?

(*) I don't think can do it with an alias, because sometimes I
specify the file before the options and sometimes after.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

steve fábián

Sorry, no. 4DOS and 4NT treat thestring identically - pass them to an OS
API. It's the APIs that are different. 32-b Windows is ambivalent about
"extensions" - they are only significant as "filetypes", but not as parts of filenames.


Technically wrong - all DIR command options are supposed to precede
filenames. You could try a complex alias along the lines of the UNTESTED one
below:

alias DR=`*DIR %$%@if[%@index[%$,.,0] EQ 0,.*,]`

which appends .* to the command line if there are no periods in it anywhere.
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Steve

stan brown

[4DOS "DIR ABC is same as DIR ABC*; not so in 4NT]

I wouldn't have a problem always appendng; after all *.EXE* is
going to get me the same files as *.EXE. But I'm concerned about
the semicolon syntax: DIR a*;b* is different from DIR a;b*. Guess
I'll just have to train myself. :-)

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

steve fábián

The semicolon in JPsoft commands has a special meaning ("include lists") not
in any other command processor. Items after the semicolon are found only in
the same directory as the items before it, e.g. dir /one
c:\windows\system\*.exe;*.com will list all .exe and .com files in the
c:\windows\system directory, sorted by NAME, so that you will see a.exe
b.com c.exe in that order. I am not sure what your example intended.
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Steve