Wildcards can be used to transfer more than one file at a time. If a wildcard is used, it should only be used in the source filename, not the destination filename. The destination should specify only the drive (and directory if the destination is a PC disk). Legal wildcards are "*" and "?". An asterisk will match any one or more characters starting at that location. A question mark will match any one character at that location. These conventions are also explained in your Windows manual.
Because of the differences in legal LIF and PC filenames, filenames may be translated. A LIF filename is limited to at most ten characters and all ASCII characters except "space,:,<,|" are legal LIF filename characters. A DOS filename is limited to 8 characters, a period and 3 characters and all characters except "\/:|<>+=;," and control characters whose ASCII value is less than the space character are legal DOS filename characters. Also, lowercase letters are converted to uppercase by DOS.
When transferring a file from a DOS to a LIF disk the first ten characters of the filename, including the period, are used for the LIF name. Any illegal LIF characters in the DOS filename are translated to an underscore character.
When transferring a file from a LIF disk to a DOS disk the filename is converted to uppercase and if necessary, a period is inserted after the eighth character. Because DOS converts lowercase letters to uppercase, two LIF files named "Aa" and "aa" will be transferred into the DOS filename "AA". The second file transferred will overwrite the first file transferred.
Note: Wildcards are not supported by the HPCOPY that is supplied with the Demonstration Version of HTBasic.
