Tandy 1000 MS-DOS User Manual

Chapter 2 / Organization Of Information
Wild Cards
MS-DOS lets you use these shorthand notations in filenames and
extensions:
? The question mark indicates that any character can
occupy that position.
* The asterisk indicates that any character can occupy
that position or the remaining positions in a filename
or extension.
Wild
card examples and the results you can expect are given
below.
You type:
test?run.exe
test*.exe
MS-DOS finds:
All files in one directory that
begin with test, have any
character next, followed by
run with the extension .exe.
The files above plus all files
in one directory that begin
with test and have the
extension .exe.
Examples:
test1run.exe
test3run.exe
test.exe
testall.exe
test1.exe
oldfile.*
Pathnames
All files named oldfile (in one old f i 1e . bas
directory), regardless of their old f i 1e . ex e
extensions. old f i 1 e . txt
Because directories are organized in a multilevel fashion, MS-
DOS needs exact directions or
path names to find files. A path-
name is a list of directories and filenames from the root direc-
tory down to
the file you want to access. Each path name can
have a maximum of 63 characters.
Refer to
the previous MS-DOS disk diagram. To access the Radio
file, tell MS-DOS
the path to follow from the root directory to
the file, separating the branches with backslashes. For instance,
to display
the contents of the Radio file, type:
t y P e \ ads \ r a d i 0 I ENTER I
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Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Specifications

General

Brand	Tandy
Model	1000 MS-DOS
Category	Desktop
Language	English