Moving Large Number of Files With Wildcard (*) File Names Fails

 Last reviewed: October 25, 1995
Article ID: Q138573
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5 and 3.51
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5 and 3.51

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to move a large number of files from one directory to a specified directory and you use wildcards (*) in the file name, the files are not moved to the specified directory. For example: 

   move c:\test\135*.dgn d:\test\135
   move c:\test\136*.dgn d:\test\136
If this example, the 135*.dgn and 136*.dgn files are moved to the d:\test\135 directory.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.5 and 3.51. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbenv kbbug3.50 kbbug3.51
KBSubcategory: ntui ntconfig
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.50 3.51

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Last reviewed: October 25, 1995
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