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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: APPEND problem in MSDOS 3.3
Keywords: MS-DOS, APPEND, serious bug
Message-ID: <781@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 05:12:07 GMT
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
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I've found what appears to be a rather serious bug in the APPEND
command of MS-DOS 3.30.

I issue the following commands from autoexec.bat:
	append /x
	append c:\word;c:\first

Then, if I put a virgin formatted diskette in drive A: and say dir a:,
I see all the files in c:\word, presumably because of the failure to
find any files matching a:*.*!  This leads to confusion for both
computer and user!

On the same topic, can someone explain the append /x switch better
than the manual?  I gather that only by issuing append /x the first
time will the current directory be searched before the appended
paths.  If I omit /x, then the current directory is never looked at?
This seems rather braindamaged, if I've interpreted it correctly.


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Bob Weissman
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