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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
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- Organization: Queen's University
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> <130@complex.complex.is> <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:56:06 GMT
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- In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
- >I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader.
- >It doesn't have any wildcard expansions build in. Every program must
- >expand the wildcards for it self.
-
- No, I think you must be thinking of Unix. DOS does have wildcard expansion
- in the FindFirst/FindNext services. In Unix it's up to the shell to do it.
-
- If you want, you could write a DOS shell that did the expansion itself, but
- the loss of the ability to have positional parameters is a pretty big cost
- to pay.
-
- This is one place where DOS got it right, and Unix got it wrong. Of course,
- DOS only got it half-right: the wildcards aren't nearly as flexible as they
- should be.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-