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- IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER ON-LINE HELP
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- Summary of Notation used on HELP Displays
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- Keywords are given in capital letters, but may be entered in either case.
- Words in lower case must be supplied, as in filename.
- Items in square brackets ([]) are optional. Do not enter the brackets.
- Items separated by a ! means that you enter one or the other, but not both.
- An ellipsis (...) means that the preceeding item may be repeated.
- Punctuation other than [] and ! must be included as shown.
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- d: denotes a drive, either fixed or floppy.
- path denotes a sequence of directory names up to 63 characters long.
- filename denotes a disk file name of 1-8 characters.
- .ext denotes an optional file name extension of 1-3 characters.
- filespec denotes a file name of the form filename.ext
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- The global filename characters are ? and * :
- ? indicates that any character can occupy that position.
- * indicates that any character can occupy that position and all remaining
- positions in the filename or extension.
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