Kaypro 10 - Naming Files

NAMING FILES
Files must be named according to established practices, and the file names
must be typed correctly.
The letter of the
drive which
contains the file.
It
must be
followed by a
colon (:).
B:NAME.MSS
~acJnamel ~
describes the contents
of the file, is no longer
than eight characters ,
and
must start with an
alphabetical character.
The
file typ e d escribes
the kind of file, such as
.LT R for letter. It is
preceded by a period
and is no mo
re than
three characters long.
There are some characters that you must NOT use in a file name:
< >
\
=
?
*
%
We recommend that you use only the letters A to Z and the numbers 0 to 9, as
some programs may have problems with other characters.
Be sure
to type the letter of the drive you want before the file name; otherwise
the computer will stay in the current drive.
When creating a file, use upper case letters . However, when accessing pro-
grams, you may type file names and drive names in lower case.
In computer books, the generic name for a file is < filename>. When you see this,
substitute the name of the file you want to use, but do not type the angle brackets
< >.
Include the filetype, if there is one.
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