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Re: "Wild cards"
- Subject: Re: "Wild cards"
- From: Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:19:43 -0400 (EDT)
At 02:45 PM 9/1/98 -0400, Nathan Sivin wrote:
>As for wild cards, I wonder how many people use the Boolean
>so-called wild cards (actually separators in searches)?
>These are "O" for "either" and "-" for "not". The "."
>sentence separator wild card (a real multi-object wild card)
>will find period, comma, quotation mark, OR exclamation
>point. Details in XYDOS Command Reference, 3-56.
In my Xy4DOS 4.106, the wildcard "." doesn't stop on commas.
Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx