RE: [OT] MSDOS strange bug
- Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Sep 08, 2004
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Ricardo M. Forno wrote: > > > Hi, all > Please open a MSDOS window under W98 SE, create a directory A with some > files, another B with some others, go to directory A and type: > > copy *.+ C:\B > > and see what happens. > Strange, uh? > I haven't tested it yet with other MSDOS variants. > Regards > So what do you expect to happen with that command? And what actually happens on Win98SE? That syntax doesn't look right to me. Typically the + is used to separate files that you'd like to combine. Or perhaps you are trying to copy the files to B using the current time and date? Unclear... -- Brian