SHOW WILDCARDS Lists the wildcards (sometimes called meta-characters) you can use with WILDCARD FIND---either VMS or ULTRIX, depending on your setting or type of system. Steps: 1. Use the SHOW WILDCARDS command. The list appears appears in the SHOW buffer, using the entire EVE main window. 2. To scroll through the list, if necessary, press the UP and DOWN arrows or other cursor-movement keys. 3. To return to the buffer you were editing, press DO or a key defined as RESET (such as GOLD-SELECT). Usage notes: o The default wildcards depend on the system you are using. Thus, on VMS, the defualt is SET WILDCARD VMS. If you want to use ULTRIX wildcards on VMS or conversely, put the relevant command in an initialization file (typically named EVE$INIT.EVE). See help on Initialization Files. o The setting applies only to WILDCARD FIND and SHOW WILDCARDS---it does not affect wildcards in file names, which are determined by the operating system. o Output from SHOW WILDCARDS remains in the SHOW buffer until you do another SHOW command or exit from EVE. To write out the list of wildcards, so you can print the list, use the following commands---in this case writing the list to a file called EVE_WILDCARDS.LIS: Command: SHOW WILDCARDS Command: BUFFER SHOW Command: WRITE FILE eve_wildcards.lis Related topics: SET WILDCARD ULTRIX SET WILDCARD VMS WILDCARD FIND