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File Finder/Grouper Release Summary
2.02 4/16/95 _ Bug Fix: Corrected bug which resulted in files not
being extracted from ZOO archives during text
searches.
2.01 4/1/95 _ Bug Fix: Removed bug introduced in final stages of
2.00 release which resulted in all EXEs being
treated as self-extracting archives.
2.00 4/1/95 _ Archive file searching enhanced as follows:
_ Now searches for text inside files that are
compressed within archives. (This requires you to
have the host unarchiving program (e.g., PKUNZIP,
LHA, etc) on your DOS path.)
_ Now searches inside ZIP, LHA, and ARJ self-extractors
_ Now searches inside ZOO archives
_ Summary report of bytes occupied for files in
archives uncompressed limited to size of the archive
file
_ User interaction with FFG enhanced as follows:
_ Now status/progress meter indicates path searched,
archive currently being searched, file currently
being scanned for text and %0 complete of text scan.
The simpler spinning meter is still available with
/fms
_ Up/Down/Right arrow keys can "direct" the search by
skipping to deeper directory (down) or next directory
in parent (up), skipping text search of current file
(right).
_ Now more responsive to user interrupting search when
searching for text inside files (checks for key
presses more often)
_ Now /g (GoTo) prompts by default and also accepts a
number such as /g2 to go directly to the second file
found.
_ CTRL-BREAK now behaves like <ESC>
_ Fixed so that input redirection doesn't disable
keyboard input
_ Added /pd (Pause-When-Done) option for running from
Windows or a menu so program doesn't exit until you
press a key.
_ Added option /![i|q|s|g] to disable the various user
keyboard interrupts (intended for batch applications
of FFG such as an auditing function):
i = disable all keyboard input
q = disable quit/escape
s = disable skip drive
g = disable GoTo
_ Text searching within files enhanced as follows:
_ You can skip a file with right arrow key.
_ Set default filters for /s /$ /x /a when no filter
specified for these to provide an easy way to specify
common filter values that might be used to speed up a
text search, such as excluding executable files:
/x = /x*.[exe,com,dll,zip,gif,arj,arc,lzh...]
/$ = excludes files with MZ exectable signature
/s = /s1-1M (excludes empty and very large files)
/a = /a!s excludes system files
_ Execution of other programs (/e option) enhanced as
follows:
_ Increases the amount of memory available to programs
that are executed with the /e option. All but a few
kbytes of FFG code are swapped to EMS, XMS, or a
temporary file when a /e command is executing.
_ Other miscellaneous changes:
_ Now /p (pause each screenful) overridden if output
redirected. Also, fixed so no screenful pause if not
showing files
_ Set default filters for /d /t when no filter
specified for these to provide an easy way to specify
common filter values:
/d = /dt TODAY
/t = /tn this minute
_ Added %H (home directory) to execute and format
specifiers. This is the directory from which the FFG
command was invoked.
_ Enhanced the /1 (Find One) option to allow
/1[:|r|z|c], which now allows you to find one per
drive (:), directory (r), ZIP/archive (z), container
(directory or archive) (c)
_ If first path spec ends in : the use .\*.* for start
dir and file
_ Bug Fix: where /dM was /dM/M/Y; now /dM/*/Y
1.57 7/16/94 - FFG now prompts the user for parameters when insufficient
parameters are entered on the command line. (At least a
one FileSpecMask must be entered.) Help is still
available via the /? option.
- FFG can now accept parameters from a file by redirecting
input to be from the file as in:
FFG < params.ffg
The options should be put on the first line of the file.
This is a way around the 128 character DOS command line
limit and is a way to save search patterns that may need to
be used again and again.
- Adds ability to set options in an environment variable
(FFGOPT by default). Options entered on the command line
are effectively appended to what is found in the
environment variable. Options for which you will
probably find this feature useful include: /: (drive
settings), /v (video), /p (pause), /b (beep), /f (format
of output), /z (ZIP/archive). For example:
set FFGOPT=/v5 /p /bpd /z /fp
would cause FFG to always use 50-line video mode, pause
after each screenful or output, beep when prompted and
done, search inside archives, and used the packed path
output format.
- Adds a "Drives" option '/:' to provide more control over
which drives are searched when
1) a wild card is used in the DriveSpec
2) or when no drive is specified at all.
You can define which drives or which drive types (i.e.,
floppy, CD-ROM, network, substitute) will be searched
when a wildcard is used in the DriveSpec. A third use of
this option is to set a default set of drives to search
if no drives are specified. This option is really most
useful when set in the "FFGOPT" environment variable so
that it is always effective.
- Options with spaces, such as /e command strings can now
be quoted without enclosing the entire option in quotes.
For example, /e"This is a command" is now okay, whereas
prior versions required "/eThis is a command".
- Bug fix: Quoted strings with a backslash before a quote
are now handled properly. For example,
"/edir c:\"
was interpreted incorrectly as command
dir c:"
and is now interpreted correctly as
dir c:\
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