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- From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel)
- Subject: Re: minus sign in file names?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.104000.22443@fwi.uva.nl>
- Keywords: batch file parameters and filenames with minus sign
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:40:00 GMT
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- koslowj@math.ksu.edu (Juergen Koslowski) writes:
-
- #Yesterday I encountered a strange behaviour of MS-DOS 5.0. I tried to write a
- #batch file that takes a string as input, adds an extension to it (.tex in my
- #case), and then processes the corresponding file further. One of my files is
- #called cc-1.tex. When calling the batch file with the argument "cc-1" only the
- #"cc" was recognized, and the "-1" was ignored. On the other hand, strings of
- #the form "cc0-" is processed correctly, as is a string of the form "cc_1".
-
- Funny. Before I bought my PC, I did my homework on an MSX2 home-computer,
- which runs MSX-DOS (but usually MSX-BASIC :-). MSX-DOS (1.11 or so) is
- nothing but a stripped down MS-DOS: it does not have directories, just COPY,
- DEL, REN, PAUSE, TYPE and a bit more. At the MSX-DOS prompt, a filename
- containing a minus is also not properly recognized:
- COPY A:cc-0.tex B: did not work, I had to do
- COPY A:cc?0.tex B:
- Applications do not seem to suffer from this strange behaviour.
-
- Unfortunately, I have no solution, but the above shows that it might not be
- just an MS-DOS 5.0 error...
-
- Marcel.
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- X Marcel Wijkstra AIO (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
- |X| Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- X University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
- ======Life stinks. Fortunately, I've got a cold.========
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