What is "select all" doing?

From: dist cash <mccdba_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28:39 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004F0D5C.20021023052839@fatcity.com>

We have ORACLE 8.1.7 running on server. My question is what difference on following select statement:

   select col1 form table1;
   select all col1 form table1;

Look like output are the same. Thanks.

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