The version number is fake but reserved for the compatibility. It means that DOSBox will work like MS-DOS 5.x. DOSBox provides some simple version of commands, part of which do not allow wildcard or support few switches.
Try to boot a floppy image which includes MS-DOS or the like.

"or the like" means something like FreeDOS.

MiniMax wrote:

"or the like" means something like FreeDOS.

May I suggest the Berkeley utilities [unix ports for 16-bit DOS]? Now free and in the public domain, they can be installed one tiny independent module at a time.
A complete list is here
http://reimagery.com/fsfd/unix.htm#unixutils
[about half way down].
It isn't too difficult to - er - emulate DOS commands missing from DOSBox by wrapping unix commands in a bat file. For example: 'ls' can get the effect of "dir /o.."; 'grep' implements "find"; 'more' and 'sort' do the obvious; and so on.
Those comfortable with unix shell programming may get an idea of the power of what one can get for free by looking at this command

1awk -f txt.awk `ls -r1 [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]E*.TXT` >LIST.HTM

which runs beautifully in DOSBox [the two `s are backquotes].

Note: I realize that I am resurrecting a very old thread, but "dir" and "more" are such common terms that I had great difficulty trying to find any thread that discusses issues like this, let alone a more current one.

Also: admittedly the very limited support for | (pipe) in DOSBox does make assembling complex procedures a bit tedious

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