Thank you, Bob.

I have a better understanding of it now.

John Balgenorth



On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote:

> The filter is inclusive, not exclusive. You would need to include every file 
> type on your computer EXCEPT the ones you want to exclude. That of course, is 
> not practical.
> 
> As I mentioned but did not likely make entirely clear, the *only* piped item 
> that matters is the second one, or the second one in each line of a return 
> delimited list. For example:
> 
> “JPEG Files|jpg”
> “|jpeg”
> 
> will allow you to select files of type JPG and JPEG. Not sure if the TYPE 
> form will work on Windows. If it does then the FILTER form is essentially 
> deprecated.
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
> On Oct 10, 2014, at 15:01 , JB 
> <sund...@pacifier.com<mailto:sund...@pacifier.com>> wrote:
> 
> It kind of explains it.  I previously had trouble
> with the answer file filtering and gave up.  You
> mentioned you needed to list the Adobe etc, &
> not just .pdf.  How about jpg and jpeg there are
> many applications that use these types.
> 
> How about providing a sample script that will let
> me filter everything but jpg, jpeg, rev, gif, text, db.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
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