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Windows 98 and DOS

Expanded DOS Wildcards

SUMMARY: Tricks with Windows 98 DOS wildcard characters.

In DOS, the "*" wildcard normally displays files which match the leading characters before the * symbol. With the DOS underneath Windows 98, you can use this wildcard to match all of the files which match the trailing characters as well. Combine the two for powerful searches and file manipulation at the DOS prompt! For example, doing

DIR *minutes*.TXT

would pull up all .TXT (text) files with the word "minutes" in the filename.

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