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Find Your Files for OS/2
Find Your Files for OS/2
Version 1.1
March 5, 1996
by
Jim Derr
Member of
Association of Shareware Professionals
CSERVE ID 76266,2634
Shareware ............................. 3
HARDWARE SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS .................. 4
INTRODUCTION ........................... 4
INSTALLATION ........................... 4
COMMAND LINE FORMAT AND PARAMETERS ................ 5
FYF command line format ................... 5
Conventions used: ...................... 5
SEARCH-SPECIFICATIONS: .................... 5
PERFORMING A FUZZY SEARCH: .................. 5
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS ..................... 6
/Z[RHSA] ........................ 6
/TOTALS ......................... 6
/NOLIST ......................... 6
/NET .......................... 6
/CD ........................... 6
/PAUSE ......................... 6
/DO ........................... 6
/+D ........................... 6
/IC ........................... 6
/SLx .......................... 6
/SGx .......................... 6
/Gx ........................... 6
/Lx ........................... 6
/#x ........................... 6
/=x ........................... 6
/Wx ........................... 6
/!x ........................... 6
/OFx .......................... 6
/FILEx ......................... 7
/PREx .......................... 7
/POSTx ......................... 7
/REGISTER ........................ 7
SPECIFYING LISTING FORMATS .................. 7
THE FYF.INI FILE ......................... 8
INI FILE CODING CONVENTIONS ................. 8
INI FILE PARAMETERS BY SECTION ................ 8
[defaults] ....................... 8
default-drives ................... 8
network-drives ................... 9
cd-drives ..................... 9
compressed-search ................. 9
output-file .................... 9
[user-exits] ...................... 9
pre-cmd ...................... 10
post-cmd ...................... 10
[display-format] .................... 10
output-line .................... 10
WHERE TO FIND THE MOST CURRENT VERSION .............. 12
SUPPORT FOR FYF AND QUESTIONS ................... 12
REVISION HISTORY ......................... 13
Find Your Files Version 1.1 User Manual Page-3-
Shareware
Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before
buying it. If you try a shareware program and continue using it, you
are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details --
some request registration while others require it, some specify a
maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the
simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with
printed manual.
Copyright laws apply to both shareware and commercial software, and
the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific
exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished
programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of
comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad
ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The
author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the
software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For
example, some authors require written permission before a commercial
disk vendor may copy their shareware.
Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You
should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether
it's commercial or shareware. The shareware system makes fitting your
needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the
overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate
money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay
for it.
FYF is a copyrighted shareware program by James Derr, owner of
California Software Design. The evaluation edition of FYF is offered
at no charge to any potential user for evaluation, but after a brief
evaluation period users must register and pay for it. Feel free to
share the evaluation edition with your friends and associates, but
please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The
essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer
users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide
incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.
Disclaimer of Warranty
Users of FYF must accept this disclaimer of warranty: FYF is supplied
as-is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied,
including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and
of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for
damages, direct or consequential, which may result from use of FYF.
This is a shareware product. If you find this utility useful please
register and keep shareware alive. Only registered users will be
supported..
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HARDWARE SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
FYF
can
be
run on any OS/2 based PC having running OS/2 version 2.1 and
greater and running on a 486 or better CPU.
Token ring networks or Novell networks are also supported.
INTRODUCTION
The FYF program is designed to aid the user in quickly finding files
on their PC. The program has numerous options giving the user a wide
variety of search options. The FYF program can locate files on local
drives, networked drives, and CD-ROM drives. In addition FYF can also
search inside ZIP and LZH type compressed files. It will also allow
the user to build file lists that can be used by other programs and
systems.
FYF options can be specified on the command line and/or specified in a
user editable configuration file. Using a configuration file the user
can setup their standard personal preferences which can be over-ridden
via command line options. Multiple drives and search patterns can be
specified and searched in one pass.
FYF can automatically find all local, network, and CD-ROM drives. FAT
and HPFS file systems are both supported.
INSTALLATION
Installation of the FYF program is very straight forward. UNZIP
the contents of the FYFxxx.ZIP file into a temporary directory.
Then simply copy the FYF.EXE file and the FYF.INI file into a
directory that is listing in your PATH statement.
Please NOTE the FYF.EXE and FYF.INI file MUST be installed into
the same directory.
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COMMAND LINE FORMAT AND PARAMETERS
FYF command line format: FYF [options] {search-spec } [options]
Conventions used:
Items appearing in brackets [] are optional items.
Items appearing in braces {} can appear 1 to x number of times.
SEARCH-SPECIFICATIONS:
FYF uses an expanded search specification that provides the user
with a high degree of flexibility. The search specification can
include any one of the following:
1. Drive-letter(s):
2. \directory-name\
3. Drive-letter:\directory-name\filespec
4. Drive-letters:\directory-name\filespec
5. file-spec
If a drive letter is not included in the search specification the
default is to search all available drives.
FYF uses an expanded wild card format to specify what files to
search for.
A * in the filespec will match 0 or more characters and it may be
used multiple times in the filespec.
A ? in the filespec will match 1 character exactly and may be
used multiple times in the filespec.
To specify more than one file specification to search for enclose
them in brackets and separate each filespec with a comma.
For example:
To search for all files on the D: drive that contain ADD or
WIN you would code: D:\[*ADD*,*WIN*]
To search for all files on the D: and E: looking for all
files that begin with TIME you would code: DE:\TIME*.*
PERFORMING A FUZZY SEARCH:
FYF can also perform a fuzzy search. This is useful if you are
trying to locate a file but don't know the exact filename. The
fuzzy search routine will attempt to locate files that sound like
the filename entered on the command line. To indicate that you
want a fuzzy search use the ~ character as the first character of
the file specification and DO NOT use any wildcard characters and
DO NOT INCLUDE A FILE EXTENSION.
EXAMPLE:
The find all files on all drives that sound close to MINE
you would code the following: ~MINE
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COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
FYF has numerous command line options to satisfy almost any search
request. Listed below are all the available options. The options may
be placed before or after the search specification, or may be placed
before and after the search specification.
IMPORTANT: When a parameter has embedded spaces or slashes the entire
parameter MUST be enclosed in quotes.
EXAMPLE: Over-riding the output listing format
FYF *.* "/OF$D $S $F"
/Z[RHSA] Find files that have the specified attributes. R=readonly,
H=hidden, S=system A=archive
/TOTALS Produce a total line showing number of files found and total
size of all files.
/NOLIST Suppress the file listing of found files.
/NET Include network drives when searching for files.
/CD Include CD-ROM drives when searching for files.
(NOTE: If you net use CD-ROM drive is it identified as a
network drive and not a CD-ROM drive)
/PAUSE Pause screen output when screen is full.
/DO Only display the directories where the files are found, do
not display the files.
/+D Include directories found in the file list.
/IC Also search inside compressed file types of .ZIP and .LZH
for files.
/SLx Find files with file sizes less than or equal to x.
/SGx Find files with file sizes greater than or equal to x.
/Gx Find files with creation/modification dates greater than or
equal to date x.
(Note: date format for x is mm-dd-yy)
/Lx Find files with creation/modification dates less than or
equal to date x.
/#x Find files that are x days old.
/=x Find files with creation/modification dates equal to x.
/Wx Find files that were created/modified on weekday x.
(Where x = 0=Sun, 1=Mon, 2=Tue, 3=Wed, 4=Thru, 5=Fri, 6=Sat)
/!x Exclude files matching mask x from listing.
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/OFx Over ride default listing format with the x format.
(See the section titled SPECIFYING LISTING FORMATS on how to
code the x parameter)
/FILEx Write the found file listing to file x.
/PREx Run procedure x prior to scanning for files. Procedure
x may be a program or an OS/2 command procedure. If
the program or CMD file is in the path then only the
name of the procedure can be specified. If it is not
in the path then the entire drive and path must also be
specified.
/POSTx Run procedure x after scanning for files.
(NOTE: The specified procedure is executed after the file
listing is produced. If the /FILE parameter is used the
file specified as the output listing file is closed prior to
executing the POST procedure)
/REGISTER Use this options to enter your registration serial number.
This will suppress the shareware information screen.
SPECIFYING LISTING FORMATS
The /OFx parameter allows users to over ride the standard output
listing format. The x is replaced with a series of symbolic variables.
Any space between the symbolic variable is significant and the space
will be included in the listing produced.
The following variables can be used specifying the listing format:
VARIABLE DESCRIPTION LENGTH
$S = file size 8 characters
$D = date of file 8 characters
$T = time of file 8 characters
$A = file attributes 4 characters
$P = directory where found variable or fixed
$F = name and ext. of file variable or fixed
$N = filename only variable or fixed
$X = file extension only variable or fixed
The $P $F $N and $X symbolic variable may optionally have a field size
specified immediately after the symbolic variable. E.G. $P30 means
show directory where the file was found and make the field 30
characters in length.
If a field size is specified the data displayed will be truncated if
the field size is smaller than the data to display, or padded with
blanks on the right to expand the data. If no size is specified the
entire data will be displayed.
The default format is:
$S $D $T $A $P $F
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THE FYF.INI FILE
FYF uses a file names FYF.INI to store user defaults and registration
information.
THIS FILE MUST RESIDE IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS THE FYF.EXE FILE!
The FYF.INI file is a plain ASCII file and uses the same format as
WINDOWS type INI files. This format was selected so user defaults and
options can be easily maintained by the user.
INI FILE CODING CONVENTIONS
The FYF.INI file is a plain ASCII text file.
Comments are allowed in the FYF.INI file and must be preceded
with a semicolon. Anything appearing after the semicolon is
treated as a comment.
The INI file is divided into sections. Each section name must be
enclosed in brackets and the section name may not contain
embedded blanks. The recognized section names are:
[defaults]
[display-format]
[user-exits]
[registered]
The [registered] section is maintained by the FYF program and
should not be altered by the user.
If you specify an entry in the INI file and the same parameter is
specified on the command line, the command line parameter will
take precedence.
Entries within each section are in the format:
keyword=value
The section names and keywords are not case sensitive.
INI FILE PARAMETERS BY SECTION
[defaults]
This section allows the user to setup user defaults. This
defaults will override the standard built-in defaults.
Allowed keywords:
default-drives
network-drives
cd-drives
compressed-search
output-file
NOTE: When FYF builds the list of drives to search it removes
duplicate drive letters before performing the search.
default-drives
The default-drives keyword indicates which drives to search
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for files on if no drives are specified along with the file
specification(s) to search for. If default-drives is not
specified all locally attached drives will be searched.
EXAMPLE: default-drives=cd
network-drives
cd-drives
The network-drives and cd-drives keywords take a 0 or a 1
indicating 1 for YES and 0 for NO. These allow the user to
setup searching on network drives and cd-drives without
having to use the /NET and /CD command line parameters. If
network-drives is set to a 1 and the /NET command line
switch is specified network drive searching is de-activated.
The cd-drives keyword and /CD command line switch function
the same way.
compressed-search
The compressed search keyword also takes a 0 or a 1
indicating 1 for YES and 0 for NO.
The compressed-search keyword tells FYF to search for files
inside compressed files. If this options is activated in
the FYF.INI file it can be temporarily de-activated from the
command line by using the /IC command line switch.
output-file
The output-file keyword tells FYF to put the results of the
search into an output file instead of displaying the results
on the screen. This is the same as using the /FILE command
line option. If you specify the output-file keyword in the
FYF.INI file and the /FILE parameter on the command line
output will be directed to the screen. If you wish to
redirect output to another filename and you have the
output-file keyword in the FYF.INI file code the command
line as follows:
FYF *.c /FILE "/FILEe:\new.out"
The first /FILE parm turns off writing to a file, the second
/FILE parm turns on writing to a file using a new name.
You can also do the following:
FYF *.c /FILE > e:\new.out
THE ADVANTAGE OF USING THE /FILE PARAMETER is: The file
specified in the /FILE parameter or the output-file keyword
in the FYF.INI file is closed prior to running the post-cmd
user exit. If you use redirection the redirected file is
NOT closed prior to running the post-cmd user exit. Using
the /FILE parameter allows the following:
FYF *.c "/FILEe:\fyf.out" "/POSTe e:\fyf.out"
[user-exits]
This section allows you to specify a program or a command
file that will be executed prior to FYF searching for files
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and after the search is complete.
Allowable keywords:
pre-cmd
post-cmd
pre-cmd
post-cmd
These keywords define the program or command file to be
run.
The program or command file must be:
1) In the current directory.
2) In a directory listed in the path.
3) or fully qualified, including drive, and directory.
If FYF can not locate the CMD or program to execute -
or - the CMD or program ends with a non zero return
code FYF will issue a message to the console.
EXAMPLE:
pre-cmd=e:\cmd\mycmd1.cmd
post-cmd=e:\anyprog.exe
[display-format]
This section defines the format of the line displayed or
written for all found files.
Allowable Keywords:
output-line
output-line
This defines the format of the line displayed for all found
files. Eight different variable names may be used.
$S = size of the file.
$D = date of the file.
$T = time of the file.
$A = attributes of the file.
$P = directory where the file was found.
$F = full name of the file found. E.G. TEST.DAT
$N = name portion of the file found.
$X = extension portion of the file found.
Spaces in the format string results in spaces on the screen.
The $P,$F,$N and $X variables may optionally have a field size
specified. If a field size is specified the data displayed will
be truncated if the field size is smaller than the data to
display, or padded with blanks on the right to expand the data.
If no size is specified the entire data string is displayed on
the screen.
Any text that appears after the = will also be displayed on the
screen or copied to redirected output. Using this facility allow
you to dynamically create OS/2 CMD files.
The output line format may also be entered on the command line
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using the /OF parameter. Just be sure to enclose the complete
/OF parameter in quotes.
E.G. FYF *.bat "/OFCOPY $P$F E:\TEMP"
EXAMPLE:
output-line=$N10 $X3
display filename for first ten positions, a blank and the
file extension for three positions.
The default is output-line=$s $d $t $a $p $f
Find Your Files Version 1.1 User Manual Page-14-
WHERE TO FIND THE MOST CURRENT VERSION
The following BBS"s are distribution points. In addition you can leave
mail on these system for me if you need technical assistance.
Space BBS (415)323-4398 Main Distribution and Mail point.
Kandy Shack (714)636-2667 Main Distribution and Mail point.
Peter Norloff BBS (703) 385-4325
Additional Distributions Points:
Comupserve In the OS2BVEN Forum Library 1 (OS/2 Shareware),
keyword of FYF
INTERNET http://www.sonic.net/~jderr
(The most current version can always be found here
first.)
SUPPORT FOR FYF AND QUESTIONS
Support can be obtained in three ways:
1) Via the INTERNET. I can be contacted via E-MAIL at
jderr@sonic.net.
2) If you have access to CSERVE please send your questions to me via
Cserve E-mail. (type GO MAIL at the Cserve prompt) My userid is
76266,2634.
These are the preferred methods, I check for mail daily and will get
back to you with an answer usually within two days.
If you do not have access to the Internet or CSERVE send a note,
letter, postcard to the address show below. Register users have
priority but I will try to help anyone in need.
You may also receive support by calling California Software Design at
(707) 575-9868.
California Software Design
P.O. Box 15248
Santa Rosa, CA 94502
Find Your Files Version 1.1 User Manual Page-15-
REVISION HISTORY
v1.0 Jan 5 1996, Initial release.
v1.1 March 8 1996, Added pre and post processing ability.
Added FYF.INI file.
