Let remote folder contains two files dummy and dummy2.
After pointing out "transfer settings" to Exclude file by mask dummy?*
no files will be tranfered instead of only one dummy.
And otherwise if to check Include mask to */,dummy?* - both will be transfered.
system info:
1) WinSCP 4.2.9
2) Transfer protocol - SFTP, SCP. Checked on both of them
3) Checked on both systems
a) Linux ... 2.6.35-020635-generic #020635 SMP Mon Aug 2 10:16:00 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
b) Linux ... 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:09:22 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
4) interface style - Commander
5) Local OS - Win XP SP3