Wild Cards - Sanyo MBC-550 Series User Manual

Characters may be in upper or lower case; the operating
system will translate into all upper case.
In addition to filename and extensions, the name of
your files may include a drive designation. A drive
designation tells the operating system to look on the
disk in the drive designated to find the filename
typed. For example, to find directory information
about the file NEWFILE.TXT which is located on the disk
in drive B:, type the following command:
DIR B:NEWFILE.TXT
Directory information about the file NEWFILE.TXT will
be displayed on the screen.
The following list contains the characters you can use
in creating filenames and extensions.
(){}[] <> !
A-Z 0-9
0 $ % &
»
Do not use * or ? This will be explained in the follo­
wing section.
Wild Cards
Two special characters called wild cards can be used in
filenames and extensions: the asterisk * and the ques­
tion mark?.
flexibility when using filenames in system commands.
These special characters give you greater
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