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Robo-FTP uses a strict wildcard matching scheme for the * and ? characters.
* will match with zero or more characters, including periods.
? will match one character exactly, whether it is an alpha, numeric, or special character (underscores, periods, and so on).
For example:
"Report*.xls" will match with: Report.xls Report20060822.xls Report.sales.q3.47.xls
"Order_????.doc" will match with: Order_0721.doc Order_ann1.doc Order_ja.3.doc
But will not match with "Order_34.doc".
This wildcard behavior applies to both local and remote files. Some users are familiar with using "*.*" to represent every file in the directory. However, with Robo-FTP, you should use "*" to get every file; "*.*" will only retrieve those files with periods in the name. The "*.*" convention is a hold over from the days of DOS, when every file name consisted of a 1-8 character name, followed by a dot, and then followed by a 0-3 character extension.
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