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Re: "Wild cards"



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
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