Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 110

Sel ecting a Drive
You can select a drive from the drive selector or the Directory l i ne.
To select a drive with the drive selector, position the pointer over the target drive ' s
letter. Cl ick the left mouse button t o view the drive ' s directory.
NOTe : The drive lerrer is parr of The disk drive idenTifier, which includes a lerrer
specifying a drive, a colon ( : ) , and a backslash (\).
The Fil e Specification
The fi le specification in the Directory field is a search criterion that may incl ude
letters, numbers, and special characters cal led w i l dcards (* and
specification determi nes which files appear i n the directory wi ndow . B y editing the
file specification, you can choose which fi les or types of fi les to display.
The file specification is similar to a filename. It contains a mandatory name of up to
eight characters and an optional exten sion of up to three characters. A file
specification uses the asterisk (*) and the question mark characters as w i l dcards.
An asterisk in a file specification stands for all characters and combinations of
characters, and can replace an entire name or extension. For example, the file
specification *. * calls for the display of all filenames w ith a l l extensions.
Often, a fi le specification has an asterisk for the name , but specifies an extension.
For example, the fi le specification * . DOC shows all filenames with the . DOC
extension in the directory w i ndow. Thi s file specification would not show:
FINANCE .TXT
The asterisk must be the l ast character in the name or extension of a file
specification. For example, the file specification TA X*.DOC is val id, but the fi le
specification T*X.DOC i s not valid.
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