12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
8:01 p.m.
On 12 Dec 2011 at 16:44, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
The rules for asterisk wildcards are very different in the command
mode of Win XP--and perhaps useless.
Suppose I create two long filenames, arglebargle2 and arglebargle3
and I DIR arg*2. The listing shows both files, but if I DIR arg*3,
only arglebargle3 shows. It seems that the DIR command in XP is
incapable of differentiating between short and long names and
consideres them both in file searches.
Also, the asterisk operates differently in XP; I*M*P*S matches
IBMCOMPUTERS. and ren I*M*P*S W*X*Y*Z results in a file name of
WBMCOMPUTERSXYZ.
So in XP command mode, you've got to be careful--it doesn't work the
same as say, Windows 9x.
--Chuck
It's even more general than that. Many folks
have fallen into the
Microsoft (FAT) limitation that a file is [char]+.[char][char][char]
format for a file name.
char[char][char][char][char][char][char][char](.)[char][char][char]
There MUST be at least one character at the beginning of the filename.