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koslowj@math.ksu.edu (Juergen Koslowski) writes:

#Yesterday I encountered a strange behaviour of MS-DOS 5.0. I tried to write a
#batch file that takes a string as input, adds an extension to it (.tex in my
#case), and then processes the corresponding file further. One of my files is 
#called cc-1.tex. When calling the batch file with the argument "cc-1" only the
#"cc" was recognized, and the "-1" was ignored. On the other hand, strings of
#the form "cc0-" is processed correctly, as is a string of the form "cc_1". 

Funny. Before I bought my PC, I did my homework on an MSX2 home-computer,
which runs MSX-DOS (but usually MSX-BASIC :-). MSX-DOS (1.11 or so) is
nothing but a stripped down MS-DOS: it does not have directories, just COPY,
DEL, REN, PAUSE, TYPE and a bit more. At the MSX-DOS prompt, a filename
containing a minus is also not properly recognized:
	COPY A:cc-0.tex B:	did not work, I had to do
	COPY A:cc?0.tex B:
Applications do not seem to suffer from this strange behaviour.

Unfortunately, I have no solution, but the above shows that it might not be
just an MS-DOS 5.0 error...

Marcel.
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