Filenames And Extensions - Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual

Filenames and Extensions

Files are identified by filenames. You can (must ) name the files you create, and you
can change the names of ex isting files.
The filename i s made up of two parts: the name and an optional three-character
extension. In the following example, the name is S A M PLE and the extension i s
.PRG.
SAM P L E . P RG
1 1
1 extension (optional ; a period ( . ) and up to th ree characters)
1
name ( mandatory ; up to eight characters)
The fol lowing characters cannot be used within a file name or extension:
Period ( . )
Quotation Marks
Forward slash (/)
Back slash (\)
Brackets ([ or ] )
Vertical Break Bar ( I )
Less-than Symbol « )
G reater-than symbol (»
(+)
Plus Sign
Colon ( )
:
Semicolon ( ; )
,
Comma ( )
( )
A�terisk
*
(?)
Question Mark
Filenames usually refer to the i nformation contained i n the file, such as TAXES for
tax information , or T AXES90, T AXES9 1 , and T AXES92 for a series of tax
information files.
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