.br Enter F or f, (_^F to see ONLY the directory files via the FILE__MANAGER) .p FILES allows the user to manipulate the files in the selected directory. Only non-directory files are shown. .require "select_files.rnh" .p If the user entered _^F a subset of the FILE MANGER functionality is invoked. Only the sub-directories are displayed. This option is included to allow the user to obtain directory information for the sub-directories. .p .note SWING reads the list of files in a directory by actually opening the directory file. This approach has been taken to improve the performance in situations where there may be many thousands of files in a directory. .end note .p SWING allows the use of the = key (EQUALS) to specify a search criteria for files in the file manager. This key may be used in both the directory manager and the file manager. When = is pressed SWING prompts for the search specification the response to which is a file specification (name.type) including wildcards as required. This specification becomes the basis of the search by the file manager when building up lists of files. This is similar to the DCL command DIR _*.C (for example). .note This operation may also be performed in the directory manager as an alternative to entering F or f to invoke the file manager. .end note .p e.g. of responses are _*.c, _*.h, _*.exe, test._* etc.. .p .note Any version number specified is ignored. .end note