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IDEAS FOR USING FFG:
- How do I find a file whose name I can't remember but I know it had "92" in
the name or extension somewhere?
- How do I find a file that I know has 'tax' in the name and '92' in the
name, but I'm not sure of the order or whether part is in the name
extension?
- How can I find a file that I know contains the string 'text' but I can't
remember what I named the file?
- How can I find a file and then make it's directory the current directory?
- How do I find all files created or modify today without having to specify
today's date? How can I make backup copies of only those files?
- How can I find files that were modified during a certain period of the
day?
- How can a find all configuration files and compress them into an archive
file?
- How can I find all files with a certain extension and rename them to have
a different extension?
- How can I get a database inventory of all executable programs on my
computer?
- How can I clean up my disk of all temporary and backup files?
- How can I delete all files that match a certain description, but have an
opportunity to confirm for each one whether or not to delete it?
- How, in a batch file, can I determine of a directory exists?
- How can I go find a file in an archive and unarchive it?
- How can I delete all files that haven't been modified in the last 30 days?
- How can I audit a business computer for files that appear to be of a
personal nature?
- How can I make all hidden files read-only too?
- How can I find all of my tax files? doc files? help files?
- How can I go find a file and immediately edit it? view it? search it for
text?
- How can I find all archiving programs and copy them onto a floppy disk?
- How can I archive all files last modified in 1992?
- How can I find a file that was just created a few minutes ago, when I
don't know its name?
- How can I find all files that were installed by Windows 3.1, no matter
where they are on my computer?
- How do I find all files that were last modified/created last weekend?
- How find out if there are files in hidden directories?
- I have a various files with five letter names and no extensions (XXXXXX.).
I want to rename only 1992 files so that they start with the year and have
my initials as the extension in the form 92-XXXXX.TGV. How do I do it?
- How can I change the date/time of a group of files? (needs a dating
utility)
- I want to copy, rename, delete, replace etc. a group of files, but I
must have an opportunity to verify the operation for each file?
- How do can a find all files that contain a certain sequence of bytes?
- A certain virus leaves a signature when it infects executable files. How
can I scan files to see if they are infected?
- Use FFG to build useful utilities (see UTIL-BAT.ZIP)