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

ID: Q138573

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 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.

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