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raddevus wrote: What if I added 10,000 choices to a drop list
Myself I would tag that as a bad UX design.
As a back end developer who was requested to populate it I would refuse to do it without paging. Since I know that if there are 10,000 now then there are going to be 100,000 next year. And when that blows up I can't point to the UI as the problem.
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I've been using this DOS/Windows sh*t for 40 years. When did Type start supporting wildcards?
C:\>Type somefile*
somefile1.txt
contentcontentcontent
contentcontentcontent
contentcontentcontent
somefile2.txt
contentcontentcontent
contentcontentcontent
contentcontentcontent
somefile3.txt
contentcontentcontent
contentcontentcontent
contentcontentcontent
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Not exactly right: I tried in Windows 98 and doesn't work 
In W2k it works however. Don't have a NT installation to check.
Mircea
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You still use Win98?????
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Not exactly: I have VMs with all (ok, almost all) MS OS-es and the "forever" answer made me chuckle and test it on Win98 and Win2k 
Mircea
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I don't recall it ever not working. But I have no way to test it. I have a DOS 6 floppy somewhere...
It's possible that I'm just thinking of OpenVMS, and assuming that DOS did it as well.
I'm sure I've done things like TYPE *.txt > combined.txt to make one big file.
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I liked working on VMS and DCL. That's the environment my first programming job was in.
Scott
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Mine too. Most of my education and the first ten years of my so-called career.
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My education was mainframe but my first six years of programming was on PDP's, MicroVAX, etc. Unfortunately it was mostly programming in DIBOL, lol.
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That's interesting. I don't recall ever trying to do that on purpose.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Using an a asterisk (wildcard) on the command line has always generated a list of files matching the mask. And the list is passed to the command for processing. I've never used it (AFAIR) for 'type' but there is no good reason why not.
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Well, different DOS commands have different ideas about how a parameter should be specified.
DIR is pretty lenient, FIND is pretty restrictive, TYPE may be in between. The point being that the command language interpreter is not the only arbiter of what constitutes a "correct" statement.
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Exactly so, but my point was about what cmd does when it parses something like "foo*" on the command line itself.
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Normally, we get the Weird features, but this is a forum for 'Weird and Wonderful', so I thought I'd let you know about a good (probably excessive to call 'Wonderful') thing I found out.
I was trying to rename a file in Windows Explorer (on Windows 10). I had accidentally selected two files (instead of just the one I wanted) so it named them 'Whatever (1)' and 'Whatever (2)'. I had no idea which extra file had been renamed, so I tried ^Z (Undo). Both files were unrenamed back to their original names (totally unrelated to each other). I had not expected that to work.
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Yup, I discovered that a few years ago by accident too. Never actually needed the feature though.
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I discovered that ages ago, and assumed everyone used it on a regular basis.
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You're right!
I regularly undo File Explorer action at the frenetic pace of easily at least 1 per year! 
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I didn't know it was enabled for the explorer but ctr+z has become such an ingrained muscle memory for me that whenever I do a mistake, regardless of the software I'm using, I reflexively attempt to undo.
While not always it does work more often than one might expect 
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^Z in fedora emacs minimizes the window. Then the following keystrokes go into whatever window gets focus. Hahaha.
Dang! My '58 Renault Dauphine has another flat tire.
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Similar experience from years ago in my college days --- in one editor, ^Y would "yank back" things I'd deleted. In another, ^Y would delete things I'd highlighted. Kept me on my toes...
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Now if only they could work with the person who implemented the copydown feature in excel and use his brains to figure out how to make it so if I select Cute Puppy.jpg and Cute Kitten.jpg and rename the first to Cutest Puppy.jpg that it should rename the second to Cutest Kitten.jpg not Cutest Puppy (2).jpg.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Looks like that'd work. Will I remember about it 6 or 12 months from now when I next need it? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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It appears in the Windows Explorer folder context menu - even the horrible new Windows 11 one - so it's not too hard to find.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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