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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: ** Need a better way to use 'WhereIs' **
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 18:29:16 GMT
- Organization: U.S.R.A/NRL
- Message-ID: <4i9ohs$6f6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- In article <4i59k9$7v2@slip.net>, shotgun@slip.net says...
- >
- >
- >Hi,
- >
- >Recently I decided it would be nice to use the WhereIs command to check for
- >a file's location on ALL the drives, rather then one drive at a time. But when
- >I tried to use the command to go from one drive to the other on its own, it
- >stopped on the frist drive and quit.
- >
- >Reading another post on here, I got the idea to use the Assign command. Here
- >is what I tried...
- >
- >Assign WI: DH0:
- >Assign WI: DH1: add
- >Assign WI: DH2: add
- >Assign WI: DH3: add
- >Assign WI: DH4: add
- >
- >..then I typed...
- >
- >WhereIs WI: *.zip
- >
- >..when it was done searching DH0: it quit instead of going onto the next
- >drive or doing all drives at the sametime. I figured it would of done one or
- >the other. So is there a better way to have this command hunt for files in ALL
- >the drives (one after the other) or do I need another command altogether?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Michael (shotgun@slip.net)
-
- This is a limitation of the system, the file search utilities, which
- hasn't caught up with itself, wrt the enhancements to logical assignments.
- A better way? I just found out about whereis today! I suppose you should
- just write a script that'll parse your requested filename and farm it
- out to the disks. How to get a list of devices associated with a logical?
-
- Greg
-
- BTW finding specific files in S:, Libs:, devs:, L:, and c: works
- for multiply-assigned logicals, in the important functions (running a program
- etc.) but not in the list or dir commands (I can't cite all cases).
-
-