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LOCATE Steven Holzner
Purpose: Searches all files in the current and the root directories
of a drive for all occurrences of any specified sequence (e.g., a
word or phrase) of up to 20 ASCII characters. Additional search
paths and/or drives may be specified by using Option 1.
Format: LOCATE searchstring
Remarks: In addition to returning the path(s) and filename(s) of the
file(s) in which the requested string is found, LOCATE puts
searchstring into a context of up to 20 immediately surrounding
characters.
LOCATE.COM is case sensitive; the string to be found must be typed
exactly. The program does, however, strip "high-order" (non-ASCII)
bits from searchstring, so it can be used, for example with WordStar
document files.
Normally, if LOCATE does not find the requested string either in the
current directory or in the disk's root directory, it simply exits.
It does not automatically search every subdirectory on every drive.
You can extend the search range, however, by preparing a simple ASCII
file that specifies additional paths and/or drives. The name of this
file must be PATH.DAT, and it must be located in the root directory
(usually C:\ for hard disks, A:\ for floppies). An example of such a
PATH.DAT file would be
\WORK
\LEVEL1
\A:
Each line in the PATH.DAT file must end with a carriage return and
specifies an additional path (or drive) for LOCATE to check before it
exits. The PATH.DAT file can be up to 300 bytes in length, and
incorrectly specified entries are ignored.