The Braille Lite M20-M40 User's Manual - Freedom Scientific

extension ".brl". At the "Enter filename" prompt,
you may write "*.brl" and an E-CHORD. All files
having the ".brl" extension are affected. Of
course, you may use the question mark more
than once to affect groups of files where only
some of the characters are the same and still
use the asterisk for the filename or extension
portion. For example, say you have a bunch of
files where the filename portions are all
different but whose extensions all start with A B
and have different ending characters. Let's say
the extensions of these files represent Braille
files for different states and you're using the
two-letter abbreviation for the states. Your files
have names like, "customer.bme", "vendor.bny",
"dealers.bfl". You can use the wildcard name
"*.b??" to refer to this group of files.
Question: I can't kill a "file" on my disk drive.
When I ask for a directory of files, the symbol
appears after the file I can't erase. Why?
Answer: It is not a file. It is a directory. While we
won't get into a lengthy discussion of MS DOS
commands and their meanings here, we'll try to
clarify the difference between a "file" and a
"directory". A file contains data you can access
(for example, a letter, a spread sheet), or a
program you can run (a word processor or a
database program). A directory is a grouping of
files. It may contain only data files, or program
files, or both. While the grouping of files in a
directory is somewhat arbitrary, most people
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