CMD Type command - When did this happen?

[PIEBALDconsult]

Always?

[Rick York]

That's interesting. I don't recall ever trying to do that on purpose.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

[Mircea Neacsu]

Not exactly right: I tried in Windows 98 and doesn't work :) In W2k it works however. Don't have a NT installation to check.

Mircea

[Kevin Marois]

You still use Win98?????

If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

[Mircea Neacsu]

Not exactly: I have VMs with all (ok, almost all) MS OS-es and the "forever" answer made me chuckle and test it on Win98 and Win2k :-D

Mircea

[PIEBALDconsult]

I don't recall it ever not working. But I have no way to test it. I have a DOS 6 floppy somewhere... It's possible that I'm just thinking of OpenVMS, and assuming that DOS did it as well. I'm sure I've done things like TYPE *.txt > combined.txt to make one big file.

[Lost User]

Using an a asterisk (wildcard) on the command line has always generated a list of files matching the mask. And the list is passed to the command for processing. I've never used it (AFAIR) for 'type' but there is no good reason why not.

[scottgp]

I liked working on VMS and DCL. That's the environment my first programming job was in. Scott

[PIEBALDconsult]

Mine too. Most of my education and the first ten years of my so-called career.

[PIEBALDconsult]

Well, different DOS commands have different ideas about how a parameter should be specified. DIR is pretty lenient, FIND is pretty restrictive, TYPE may be in between. The point being that the command language interpreter is not the only arbiter of what constitutes a "correct" statement.

[scottgp]

My education was mainframe but my first six years of programming was on PDP's, MicroVAX, etc. Unfortunately it was mostly programming in DIBOL, lol.

[Lost User]

Exactly so, but my point was about what cmd does when it parses something like "foo*" on the command line itself.