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Command Prompt Wildcard Glitch

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First post, by jargon

Posted on 2008-07-25, 21:47

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-specs-
Win32 XP Home version 2002 / build 2600 SP3
Compaq Presario 906US Laptop
AMD Athlon32 "XP" 1500+ 1.33 GHz
960 MB of RAM out of a total 3 GB of DDR2 reported available.
ATI Mobility Radeon

-regarding-
This is a general error, in my opinion, independent of system specs; regarding command prompt erratic behavior resulting from wildcard usage.

1>COPY * ..\DAT\
2   0 File(s) copied.
3
4>COPY * ..\DAT\*
5   0 File(s) copied.
6
7>COPY *.TXT ..\DAT\*
8Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
9Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
10Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
11Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
12Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
13Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
14Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
15Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.
16   0 File(s) copied.
17
18>COPY *.TXT ..\DAT\*.*
19Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
20Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
21Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
22Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
23Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
24Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
25Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
26Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
27   0 File(s) copied.
28
29>COPY *.* ..\DAT\*
30Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
31Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
32Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
33Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
34Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
35Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
36Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
37Copy failure : ..\DAT\*.*.
38   0 File(s) copied.
39
40>COPY *.* ..\DAT
41 COPY.TXT
42 FLAG.TXT
43 FONT.TXT
44 ITEMROOM.TXT
45 NOUNVERB.TXT
46 VERB.TXT
47 WALLROOM.TXT
48 WHAT.TXT
49   8 File(s) copied.
50
51>VER
52DOSBox version 0.72. Reported DOS version 5.0.

As you can see, DOSBOX is behaving erratically with wildcards.

1>COPY * ..\DAT\
2   0 File(s) copied.

The above should normally copy all files regardless whether they have an extension or not. There were 8 files to be copied, that would normally have copied over, I believe, in DOS 5.

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