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RE: [OT] MSDOS strange bug

• Posted by "Ricardo M. Forno" <rforno at uyuyuy.com> Sep 10, 2004
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OK, I was not clear enough.
I wanted only to copy all files from a directory to another, but I made a
typo, and got a very unexpected result: the "destination" directory
contentes were copied to the "originating" directory.
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:56 PM
Subject: RE: [OT] MSDOS strange bug


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> Ricardo M. Forno wrote:
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> > 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
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