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	WILD is an experimental program for doing wild-card directory
searches.  Basically, WILD differs from DIR in that the character ? is
interpreted as "match any character".

	WILD accepts commands of the following syntax; items in {} are
optional. ⊗ represents the Kleene star (0 or more repetitions).

<command> ::= {<output term>←}{<file term>}⊗

<output term> ::= <output device> | <file>

<file term> ::= <file>{<switch>}⊗

<output device> ::= LPT: | TTY: | (whatever the system will accept)

<file> ::= {<device>:}{<name>}{.<extension>}{[<project>{,<programmer>{ ]}}}

<switch> ::= /<switch name>=<switch value>

	In interpretting file names, the default <device> is "DSK", the
default <project> and <programmer> are your alias PPN, and the default
<name> and <extension> are "*".  Downarrows ("↓") may be used as quoting
characters.  Thus, REF's message file is both ↓   REF↓.msg[2,2] and
↓   ↓REF.msg[2,2] (but not ↓    REF.MSG↓[2,2]!)

	For each <file term>, WILD does a directory/full for those files
that match that <file term>, under control of the <switch>'s.  <ESCAPE I>
will often terminate multiple directory searches.  There are, however, no
switches currently implemented. (Suggestions for useful switches are
welcome).

	The character "?" is presumed to match any character.  A "*" has
its usual (match any) interpretation.  It can be thought of as "??????".
Thus, for example, we can have the following dialog with WILD (the
statements in ⊂⊃ are comments):
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.ru wild
Welcome to WILD.  Documentation on WILD.REF[UP,DOC]
*wi??  ⊂What files do I have that have 4 character names, starting with "WI" ⊃

16-FEB-78  1759
FILNAM EXT   PPN    SIZE  WRITTEN  TIME PRO    WRITER     REFERENCE      DUMPED    

WILD   SAI SHOREF    4.6 16-FEB-78 1742 005 PAPREF E      16-FEB-78 
WILD   DMP SHOREF    3.5 16-FEB-78 1758 005 PAPREF WILD   16-FEB-78 

	TOTAL=    8.2

*c?????.*[1,r?f] ⊂What files on any [1,r?f] area start with "C"? ⊃

16-FEB-78  1800
FILNAM EXT   PPN    SIZE  WRITTEN  TIME PRO    WRITER     REFERENCE      DUMPED    

CROSS  IN    1REF    128 12-JUL-76 1336 005 PAPREF E      11-AUG-77 25-JUL-76 P733>
CHECKS SAI   1REF    895 29-JAN-76 1839 000 PAPREF SOS    10-AUG-76 25-JUL-76 P733>
CROSS  DAT   1REF    128 12-JUL-76 1252 005 FOLRWW E      25-JAN-78 25-JUL-76 P733>
CROSS  SAI   1REF    7.1 13-JUL-76 1253 005 PAPREF E      11-AUG-77 25-JUL-76 P733>

	TOTAL=    8.2

*baz←[fol,r??] ⊂Write the full directory for all [FOL,R??] areas on the file BAZ.
	This command finds all of [FOL,REF], [FOL,RWW], [FOL,ROD], and [FOL,RDG]. ⊃
*↑C
↑C

.r wild
Welcome to WILD.  Documentation on WILD.REF[UP,DOC]
*ngb*.??t[xgp,?ys]

19-FEB-78  1304
FILNAM EXT   PPN    SIZE  WRITTEN  TIME PRO    WRITER     REFERENCE      DUMPED    

NGB25  FNT XGPSYS    1.6 25-FEB-73 2145 000 XGPSYS COPY   19-FEB-78  5-JUL-75 P529>
NGB30  FNT XGPSYS    2.1 14-APR-76  213 000   SLES FONT   18-FEB-78 26-APR-76 P686>
NGB25  CFT XGPSYS    2.7 25-NOV-75 1332 000   H RF UFC    19-FEB-78  9-DEC-75 P615>
NGB40  FNT XGPSYS    3.2 26-NOV-75  827 000  MAJAM EDFONT 17-FEB-78  9-DEC-75 P615>
NGB30  CFT XGPSYS    3.6 14-APR-76  215 400   SLES UFC    18-FEB-78 
NGB40  CFT XGPSYS    5.1 27-APR-76  310 400   SLES UFC    17-FEB-78 
NGB50  CFT XGPSYS    6.5 27-JAN-78 1241 400 LETDCO UFC    27-JAN-78 
NGB50  FNT XGPSYS    4.0 17-JAN-78 1423 000 XGPSYS FSCALE 27-JAN-78 30-JAN-78 P1055>

	TOTAL=   28.9

*↑C
↑C

More magic---

.r wild;????75.fnt[xgp,sys]

22-FEB-78  1418
FILNAM EXT   PPN    SIZE  WRITTEN  TIME PRO    WRITER     REFERENCE      DUMPED    

BUCK75 FNT XGPSYS    5.7 17-OCT-73 1024 000 ACTREG COPY   21-FEB-78  5-JUL-75 P529>

       TOTAL=    5.7

*????65.fnt[xgp,sys]
No files found.
*↑C
↑C
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