Regarding robots.txt file

What does Disallow: /*? mean?

[mt_biker]

I can't seem to find the answer to this one anywhere...

In this robots.txt file, does anyone know what the following Disallow line means:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?

Other than a Sitemap: line, this is the entire robots.txt.

[mt_biker]

Just to clarify my initial question...

I get the Disallow: /* part (don't index anything), but what is the meaning of the question mark?

[topr8]

Disallow: /

means disallow the root and anything below it - effectively disallow all.

what they are saying is:
disallow anything that has a query string

eg
/page.php?a=b

[mt_biker]

That makes sense. Thank you!

[giggle]

We have this:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*?

What does it mean please? I tried reading through various pages but couldn't find the exact answer.

Thanks

[aakk9999]

We have this:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*?

What does it mean please? I tried reading through various pages but couldn't find the exact answer.

As said in the post above, this means:

what they are saying is:
disallow anything that has a query string

eg
/page.php?a=b

[mt_biker]

User-agent: *

...means ALL bots whereas...

User-agent: Googlebot

...specifies the Googlebot only

[coopster]

You may also want to review the forum "Charter" link at the top of this page. Each forum has a Charter with information pertinent to the topics and discussion on the forum. This particular forum has links and tutorials that answer many of your questions regarding the robots.txt directives.