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This WHEREIS.ASM is derived from the WHEREIS program published in
Softalk/PC by John Socha, with a few "improvements" added by RD:
If extension is not given it defaults to wildcard,
e.g. WHEREIS XYZ is the same as WHEREIS XYZ.*
When a matching filename is found, will ask if you want more
to be searched for (unless you specified /g or /G in original
command line). You can press "y" or "Y" to search for more
files, or any other key to terminate the WHEREIS program.
This prevents thrashing around on the disk looking for more
matches, when the user already knows there aren't any.
You can supply a "G" switch to force all matches to be printed
without the "more" query.
e.g. WHEREIS XYZ /G or whereis xyz /g
If no filename is supplied in the input line, will give an error
message. Also, if no match is found, will print a message to
that effect instead of quietly terminating without any output.
Also checks to make sure it is running under DOS 2.0.
When you put this WHEREIS.EXE on your system, make sure you erase
all previous copies of WHEREIS.COM or WHEREIS.EXE. It is best to
put WHEREIS in one of the directories pointed to by a PATH command
so that the utility is always available no matter where you are
working. For instance, if you have WHEREIS.EXE in the subdirectory
SYSTEM on drive D, put the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
PATH=D:\SYSTEM