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If you understand UNIX wildcards (*?) then you may safely
bypass this menu since that is exactly how TAG-BBS matches accounts,
titles, files, and so on.
For the uninitiated:
You are trying to match texts to a pattern. The pattern may be as specific
as the text you are looking for, or as general as any text with ".c"
as an ending.
Specifying the pattern:
All standard characters may be used, but two have very special meanings..
? = match ANY CHAR in this position
* = match ANY NUMBER of ANY CHAR
Examples:
*.c = to find anything ending with ".c"
th?? = will match both "thAT" and "thIS" and "thEM"
but not "thERE" or "thE"
*E* = match ANYTHING with an E in it, "silkEn", "bEst"