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1–17 character file name, which could be upper case letters or digits, and the period, with the requirement it not begin or end with a period, or have two consecutive periods. The Univac VS/9 operating system had file names consisting of Account name, consisting of a dollar sign "$", a 1-7 character (letter or digit) username, and a period (".").
In the list below, commands that can accept more than one file name, or a filename including wildcards (* and ?), are said to accept a filespec (file specification) parameter. Commands that can accept only a single file name are said to accept a filename parameter. Additionally, command line switches, or other parameter strings, can be supplied ...
UNC names (any path starting with \\?\) do not support slashes. [4] The following examples show MS-DOS/Windows-style paths, with backslashes used to match the most common syntax: A:\Temp\File.txt This path points to a file with the name File.txt, located in the directory Temp, which in turn is located in the root directory of the drive A:.
An 8.3 filename (also called a short filename or SFN) is one that obeys the filename convention used by CP/M and old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5. It is also used in modern Microsoft operating systems as an alternate filename to the long filename, to provide compatibility with legacy ...
@file The name of the matching item, double quoted. @fname The basename of the matching item (without file extension), double quoted. @ext The file extension, double quoted, without leading dot. If a file has multiple extensions, only the last is returned. If the file has no extension, a quoted empty string is returned. @path
To allow a single HFS+ file system to be used both by the classic Mac OS and macOS, the macOS HFS+ file system code, when asked to create or refer to a file by name, would map all colons in the file name to slashes and, when asked to show the names of files in a directory, map all the slashes in the file name to colons. Thus, if a user created ...
The command-syntax on CP/M is: TYPE ufn Note: ufn = unambiguous file reference In MP/M, the command has a pause mode. It is specified by entering a 'P' followed by two decimal digits after the filename. The specified number of lines will be displayed and then the command will pause until a carriage return is entered. [7]
The Call command in COMMAND.COM only supports calling external batch files. File name parser extensions to the Set command are comparable with C shell. [further explanation needed] The Set command can perform expression evaluation. An expansion of the For command supports parsing files and arbitrary sets in addition to file names.