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1.2 Functional Description <strong>CP</strong>/M <strong>Operating</strong> <strong>System</strong> <strong>Manual</strong><br />

matches the following unambiguous filenames<br />

XYZ.COM<br />

and<br />

X3Z.CAM<br />

The wildcard character can also be used in an ambiguous file reference. The * character replaces<br />

all or part of a filename or filetype. Note that<br />

*.*<br />

equals the ambiguous file reference<br />

????????.???<br />

while<br />

filename.*<br />

and<br />

*.typ<br />

are abbreviations for<br />

filename.???<br />

and<br />

????????.typ<br />

respectively. As an example,<br />

A>DIR *,*<br />

is interpreted by the C<strong>CP</strong> as a command to list the names of all disk files in the directory. The<br />

following example searches only for a file by the name X.Y:<br />

A>DIR X.Y<br />

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