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Subject:Re: question about term - wild card From:"Nagai, Paul" <pnagai -at- VISA -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 7 Aug 1995 16:53:00 PDT
> I have to explain (per our specs) a "wild card" search for a software
manual
> (I won't use the quotation marks in my document), but when I started
looking
> up the spelling I ran into a dead end.
MS-DOS 6.22 Help DIR uses: wildcard
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