How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS?

Some time ago, I described how wildcards worked in MS-DOS, specifically how wildcards participate in pattern matching. Today, I’ll look at how wildcards participate in copying and renaming. First, the source and destination patterns are expanded into the eleven-character FCB format by the algorithm I described in that earlier article. The post How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS? appeared first on The Old New Thing....

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