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- Find Duplicates
- by
- John E. Bean, P.E.
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- Version 2.03
- February 1989
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- Copyright 1988, 1989 - Data Acquisition Inc.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Find Duplicates is an utility program for IBM PCs equipped
- with hard disk drives. Find Duplicates will search a
- specified drive and locate all duplicate files.
-
- Once the duplicate files are located they are displayed on
- the screen. Files can be tagged for deletion, viewed, printed
- or deleted.
-
- Find Duplicates was written in Turbo Pascal 5.0, utilizing
- Turbo 5.0 Professional by Turbo Power Software.
-
- The program requires 256K of RAM and a hard disk.
-
-
- GETTING STARTED
-
- To run Find Duplicates, simply type FD at the Dos prompt
- which can be followed by two optional command line param-
- eters. The syntax is:
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- FD /d=<drive> /bw
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- The first parameter, /d=<drive>, is entered when the drive to
- be searched IS NOT the currently logged drive. The second pa-
- rameter forces the output to be in black and white. This is
- useful for laptop computers which have LCD screens.
-
- The following are valid examples on starting Find Duplicates.
-
- EXAMPLE:
- You are logged onto drive C and want to find
- all the duplicate files on drive C.
- C:>FD <Enter>
-
- EXAMPLE:
- You are logged onto drive C and want to find
- all duplicates files on drive D and want the
- output to be in black and white.
- C:>FD /d=d /bw <Enter>
-
-
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- USING FIND DUPLICATES
-
- Once Find Duplicates has been evoked, as described in "GET-
- TING STARTED", the program will perform the following tasks:
-
- * Search the specified Drive for all
- subdirectories.
- * Search each subdirectory for all files.
- * Sort and store all files.
- * Find all duplicates files.
-
- While Find Duplicates is doing the above, the number of files
- found is displayed on the screen.
-
- After finding the duplicates files a display screen will ap-
- pear. On the screen the duplicate files are displayed,
- separated by a blank line. The following are the keys and ac-
- tions that can be taken.
-
- KEY ACTION
- Down Arrow Move highlight bar down one
- file.
- Up Arrow Move highlight bar up one file.
- PgDn Move highlight bar down 18
- files.
- PgUp Move highlight bar up 18 files.
- Home Move highlight bar to first
- file.
- End Move highlight bar to last
- file.
- T Tag highlighted file for
- deletion.
- U Untag highlighted file.
- P Print duplicate files to
- printer.
- V View highlighted file using
- LIST.COM
- F1 Display Help Screen.
- F10 Erase tagged files.
- ESC Exit Find Duplicates.
-
- Once all the duplicate files have been tagged, depress the
- F10 function key. You will be asked if you are sure you want
- to erase the tagged files. If you depress "Y" the tagged
- files will be erased, a screen will appear listing the number
- of files that were erased and the amount of disk space recov-
- ered, and the program will be terminated.
-
- That is all there is to Find Duplicates. It was designed to
- be easy but powerful. I hope you enjoy this program and put
- it to good use.
-
- OTHER PROGRAMS
-
- I have used many Public Domain, Shareware and Commercial
- software over the years. In appreciation to all those authors
- of Public Domain Programs I have written several Public Do-
- main Programs. They are:
-
- EzDoss:
- EzDoss is a Dos Shell. I have used many Dos
- shells over the past years. Each program has sev-
- eral features that I really enjoy. I decided to
- write a Dos Shell that put most of those features
- into EzDoss. EzDoss is both Menu Driven and has
- "Quick Keys". Some of the features that EzDoss
- has are:
- * Tag files either singulary, all at once, or
- by pattern.
- * Copy, delete, move, rename, print or view
- tagged or highlighted files.
- * Include or Exclude file from being displayed
- by a user defined mask.
- * Edit an existing Ascii file.
- * Invoke an Ascii text SideKick type editor.
- * Locate all files using a user defined mask
- for on a given drive.
- * Print a tree of the specified disk drive.
- * Format a disk without leaving EzDoss.
-
- I am sure that once you try EzDoss and discover
- all the power and ease it has this will become
- an indespensible program.
-
- Lima:
- Another type of program I used reguarly are
- text editors. The ones I used are either too
- simple or too complex. I am used to using the
- text editor that comes with Turbo Pascal. I
- also bought Turbo Professional 5.0 which is a
- set of over 400 Turbo Pascal routines that do
- just about everything you can think of. I
- wanted to write a program that uses many of
- Turbo Professional routines and I had Turbo
- Editor ToolBox so I wrote Lima (a bad pun on my
- last name). Some of the featurs of Lima are:
- * Dual Windows. Two files can be opened at the
- same time. Windows can be zoomed, rotated or
- switched between files.
- * Buffering. Blocks of text can be copied or
- moved from one window to another.
- * Macros. Macros can be defined, and written
- to a disk file.
- * Keys can be redefined to key sequences of
- your choice.
-
- CopyCon:
- I have written my share of short batch files us-
- ing the "Copy Con" method. If I had a dime for
- every time I goofed and had to start over, Donald
- Trump would be borrowing money from me! I decided
- to write a program that would replace Copy Con
- and cleverly entitled it "CopyCon". CopyCon is
- evoked the same what Copy Con is except there is
- no space between Copy and Con. For example:
- A:>copycon test.bat
- This would evoke CopyCon and create, or load if
- test.bat is an existing file, the file test.bat.
- Copycon allows for backspacing, inserting and de-
- leting lines, centering of text and graphic boxes
- to name just a few options.
-
- CopyCon IS NOT a text editor but a tool to use in
- creating small batch files.
-
- To get the most current version of the above programs send
- $10.00 for each program to me at the following address:
-
- John E. Bean
- data acquistion inc.
- 1701 Broadway #156
- Vancouver, Wa. 98663
-
- I hope you enjoyed Find Duplicates and please do not hesitate to send
- comments and praise to me.
-
-
-
-
- ABOUT DATA ACQUISITION INC.
-
- Data Acquisition Inc. is a company that manufactures a micro-
- processor based CMOS unit which can store information based
- on events and time.
-
- One of the products designed around the unit is a traffic
- counter called MicroCounts. The MicroCounts unit can count
- vehicle actuations, classify vehicles, or determine speeds.
-
- This microcomputer unit can be adapted for various uses, such
- as counting objects passing a given point (people though a
- gate).
-
- Data Acquisition Inc. will also write custom software. The
- Public Domain Programs listed above is an example of the
- quality and thought that goes into programs we develop.
-
- If you think you have an application for our microprocessor
- based unit or need custom software developed, please contact
- me at (206) 687-7246 or write to me at:
-
- John E. Bean
- Software and Applications Engineer
- Data Acquistion Inc.
- 1701 Broadway #156
- Vancouver, Wa. 98663
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