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Now you have two files on the default drive that have the same

contents but different names. In this example, you can omit the

drive designators because the original file and the copy are both

on the default drive.

Using wildcards

An easy way to copy a group of files is by using wildcard
characters in the filenames. You can use two wildcards:

* and ?. The asterisk represents any group of characters and

the question mark represents any single character.

For example, to copy all the files on the diskette in drive A to
drive C, type the following and press

Enter:

COPY A:*.* C:

To copy all files with names that begin with the four letters

MEMO

and end with any single character (such as MEMO1),

type the following and press

Enter:

COPY A:MEMO? C:

You can also use the COPY command to combine several files

into one. For example, to create a new file called DATA that

consists of the files REPORT, FACTS, and MEMO, type the

following and press

Enter:

COPY REPORT + FACTS + MEMO DATA

Now the file DATA consists of REPORT followed by FACTS

followed by MEMO. Because the files are located on the
current drive, no drive designators are necessary.

To

copy REPORT, FACTS, and MEMO from drive A to the

file named DATA on drive C, type the following and press

Enter:

COPY A:REPORT + A:FACTS + A:MEMO C:DATA

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