Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!acornrc!bob 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 Lines: 24 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. -- Bob Weissman Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | pyramid }!acornrc!bob Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov