APPENDIX
E
Global Characters
(continued)
2.
If
you entered the
DOS
command
COPY ?‘?ACCTS.J?‘? C:
Files (c), (d), and (e) would be copied.
An asterisk can be used to replace a single character or a sequence
of
consecutive characters
in
a file name. An asterisk in a base name
means that any character can be in that position and in the rest
of
the base name. Similarly, an asterisk in an extension means that any
character can be in that position and in the rest
of
the extension.
With the same diskette used
in
the examples above,
1.
If
you entered the
DOS
command
COPY
79*.M*
C:
Files (a) and (b) would be copied.
2.
If
you entered the
DOS
command
COPY
*.M*
C:
Files (a), (b), and
(f)
would be copied.
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