User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex QT User Guide
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15.14 Groups of Files and Wild Cards.
Often you may want to copy a group of related files, such as all letters to a particular company. You
could do this one file at a time, but it is slow if there are more than 2 or 3 files.
To speed things up, KeySoft allows the use of two "wild card" characters to specify a group of files
with related names.
Any single character can specified by ?. For example, the file name:
NOTES, followed by ?,
would select all the following files:
NOTES1;
NOTES2;
NOTES3.
You can use the single character wild card more than once. For example, the file name:
NOTES, followed by ?, twice,
would select NOTES13 and NOTES24, but would ignore NOTES7.
The second wild card is *. This is the multi-character wild card, used to represent any group of
characters. For example, the file name:
SCIENCE, followed by * would select all the following files:
SCIENCE NOTES – JAN;
SCIENCE;
SCIENCE3.
To Copy, Erase, or Protect a group of related files, include the appropriate wild card characters in
the file name that you enter at a "File name?" or "Document name" prompt. Use Help, HELP to
remind you of the commands.
To select every file in a folder, use just the multi-character wild card, *, as the file name. You might
do this to copy the entire contents of one folder to another folder. If you save the copies in the same
directory, KeySoft prefixes "Copy of" to the file name of each copy.
When using wildcards KeySoft gives the opportunity to confirm each file individually or to let
KeySoft operate on all files without interruption. KeySoft prompts: "Confirm each file?."