Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: Unix command globbing for MS-DOS
Date: Sun, 19 May 91 06:13:21 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May19.061321.25061@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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References: <1991May16.144701.10301@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991May16.235903.15847@netcom.COM> <1991May17.134702.27916@mccc.edu>

In article <1991May17.134702.27916@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Are you saying that MKS Tools can ignore the "."?  I found that in
>creating shell scripts with MKS Tools, say, one named 'doit', that I had
>to type "doit." to get the MKS Korn shell operating under MSDOS to find
>the script!

Yes, you are right.  If you type `doit' in the MKS Korn Shell then it
will search for `doit.com', `doit.exe', `doit.bat' and `doit.ksh'.  It
will only execute `doit' if you type `doit.' to signify that it has no
extension.
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