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U1-10: Subdirectory Utilities --------------------- 1405 Subdir. Traverse Small Programs Disk --------------------- In our opinion, Led's Change Directory (LCD) is the best general purpose directory changing program, but others have different features which you may prefer. CDD Brody, Kenneth J. $? is used to change into nested directories in DOS without having to specify the entire path. For example, if you more frequently go to subdirectories in your WP and COM directories, you first enter SET CDPATH=C:\WP;C:\COM; to specify them as the only directories to be searched. Then at any time in DOS, to get to, say C:\COM\ATO, you just type CDD ATO. CdTo Christensen, Ward $? searches an entire hard disk for a file and upon finding it, makes the directory in which it is found the current directory. CHD Barsky, Stephen $? lets you change directories without having to use the backslash key in some cases, which can be awkward to reach on some keyboards. Directory Renamer 1.0 (DIR-REN) Adams, Richard W. $5 renames subdirectories. A similar utility previously in the library would not work with DOS 4. Directory Navigator 1.0 (DN) PerCentage Corporation $15 quickly and colorfully displays the current directory file list with a cursor in a 5-across list of the directory's subdirectories. You can move the cursor to a subdirectory name and press PgDn to see the files in it, or press PgUp to move back to the next level up until you get back to the root directory. By pressing Enter, you exit DN into the directory whose filenames are being displayed. ESC puts you back where you started. GO2 (GO2-LD) DeVoney, Leslie, Stegemoller $? is a utility that lets you change subdirectories without typing long path names. This is obviously most useful on hard disk systems. It works by letting you assign a long path name to a short and more easily remembered keyword. HopTwig 1.0 and 1KeyCD Martz Software $19 allow you to hop from one part of the directory tree to another. HOPTWIG works by assigning the name of the directory you are in to a function key so that you can get back to the directory after you leave it by hitting that key. 1KEYCD lets you move up and down the directory tree until you reach the desired directory. Then pressing Enter puts you back in DOS in the selected directory. The program is limited to 18 directories. Led's Change Directory 4.0b (LCD) Ledbetter, Keith ASP $15 is one of the best utilities we have seen for easy changing of directories. It can be used as a total replacement for DOS's CD, RD, and MD commands. LCD works across multiple hard disks, real or virtual or even devices like Bernoulli's. When you first run it (or whenever you tell it to), it generates a database file of your directories. Then when you enter LCD and all or part of a directory name, it almost instantly changes into the specified directory, even if it is on another drive or nested within other directories. It can also create and delete directories itself, with immediate updating of its directory database at the same time. Other features include support for 43 and 50 line modes on EGA/VGA monitors, and a fixed entry size file format that can store up to 4,000 directory entries in the database. Other features include a speed search option, mouse support, the ability to detect hidden directories, the ability to rename directories, and many more shortcuts. If your entry is ambiguous, it will display the matching directory names in a pop-up box from which you can quickly select the one you want. The key word is "quickly". When doing something as routine as changing directories, you do not want to be slowed down or to go through needless hassels. LCD fills the bill. A member writes: "LCD does not let me change to the root directories of either C: or D:." PsL: The purpose of LCD is to let you change directories without having to type in long path names. Typing "C:" or "D:" followed by "CD\" gets you to the root directory in fewer keystrokes than typing "LCD C:\". PushP2 1.1 Miller, David M. $0 is a set of directory stack maintenance utilities for easy maneuvering among directories and drives. The names of the directories in the stack are displayed with each use, so that you can easily see where you stand. QD Wallengren, Ernie $0 allows you to change, create, remove and rename directories with minimum effort. QD is not the fastest way to simply change directories, but looks like an excellent tool for cleaning up directories. You see a sorted list of subdirectories in the current directory and can select a subdirectory with the cursor keys or type the first few unique letters of a subdirectory's name and it becomes the current directory. If you try to remove a directory (by pressing the Del key) with files in it, you are warned and given the option of deleting the directory and all the files in it. Traverse 1.6 Land, John $0 makes it easy to see and change directories. If only one child directory exists, Traverse automatically changes to that subdirectory. If none exist, you are move back to the parent directory. If more than one child directory exists, up to 26 will be displayed and one can be selected by pressing a letter A through Z. ESC drops you back in the directory you started from; / or \ take you to the root directory; PgUp takes your to the PREVIOUS DRIVE, and PgDn takes you to the NEXT DRIVE. TP4 source code included. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1405 -------------------------------- ---------------------- 1034 File/Dir. Listers Small Programs Disk ---------------------- 1034 Display all Files/SubDirs. ------------------------------ BigD gives a compact listing of all the files on a hard disk by subdirectory. While existing utilities in the library provide the same information, the output from this one seems best suited for a printout, while others may be better on the screen. Digger 2.0 Smith, Richard $0 tells you the total size of a directory and its subdirectories. DTA 2.1 Meyer, Eric $0 [March 1994 CD] is a replacement for the DIR, TREE, and ATTRIB commands of DOS, as well as a WHEREIS utility. It provides an alphabetized directory with file sizes and free space available, displays an alphabetized compact subdirectory tree that optionally includes sizes, can search an entire directory tree for files by attributes or time/date, and change file attributes or time/date. DIRSize (DSIZEKR) Robbins, Keith $0 provides a graphical tree display with the size of every directory running along side the tree. Also shown are the number of files in each directory, the acutal disk space used, and more. DIRSize 1.5 (DIRSIZF) Franklin Resources $0 displays a list of all directories (in tree format), quantity of files and bytes stored in each individual directory. This is ideal for quickly spotting where disk space is being used (wasted?). DIRSize automatically switches into the 43/50 line mode on EGA/VGA. Rather than just dumping output to the screen, it provides a scrollable display. The list may also be sent to a printer or disk file. Dirut6 Vass, Garry J. $0 steps through the directories on a disk, displaying the filenames grouped by extension with a different color for each group. A command-line option causes the program to go through the entire (hard) disk and group all the files on it by extension, which can let you look for duplicate file names. Dsiz will display the names and sizes of all the subdirectories on a disk. Fast File Finder 2.09 (FF209) Graham, Keith P. $0 has options to search all drives, search arcs, create batch files, jump to directories, delete files, perform string searches and more. PWD Glynn, Earl F. $? shows the current ("working") directories on all active disk drives. The TP5 source code is included; it will show TP programmers how to manipulate DOS system control blocks using pointer variables and record types. Does not work with DOS 4. ShowDir displays the names of all the subdirectories for the specified directory. Space Map 2.0 (SPC-MAP) Smith, Ben $0 displays the amount of space being used by a directory and all of its child directories. Space Map is very fast and output can be directed to a file or the printer for easy reference. This is handy for pinpointing where your hard disk space is going and cleaning it up. TD13 Losoff, Alan $? produces a directory of all files in each directory along with date, time, and file size by combining TREE and DIR. Trunk 0.96 O'Regan, Mike $0 is a hard disk file and directory lister intended as a replacement for the TREE utility that comes with DOS. 1034 Execute Across Directories ------------------------------- Runall 1.0 Baumann, Paul L. $5 executes commands for each file or subdirectory that meets specified selection criteria, which includes size, date range, subdirectories, and the option to be prompted for each file. Run Mefford, Michael J. $0 executes .COM, .EXE, or .BAT files from any disk directory without requiring changing directories or specifying a path to the file. This is not the same as an older program named RUN that allowed DOS 2 users to execute a program in another directory by specifying the path name. Sweep lets DOS commands range across all directories and subdirectories. A few examples will help explain how convenient this can be. SWEEP DEL *.BAK will delete every .BAK file on your disk, no matter where they are. Do NOT try sweep del *.* unless you want to delete every file on your disk!! SWEEP DIR > PRN will give you the complete DIR output for every subdirectory on your disk. XT is a simple program that repeatedly executes commands over an entire directory tree, or over any specified subtree. When a command is given with XT, XT will descend through the specified directory tree and execute the command for each subdirectory found. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1034 -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- 0277 Path and Other Subdir. Utils. Small Programs Disk ---------------------------------- 0277 Path Utilities ------------------- Dpath 3.0 McGreggor, James A. Jr $0 lets you specify on bootup which paths to search for data files. It will write to files which are not located in the current subdirectory. Data Path (DP) Dubbs, Bruce $? lets you use subdirectories with programs that don't normally support subdirectories. We have mixed emotions about these. They are terrific if you are locked in a dungeon and forced to use WordStar or VisiCalc, but modern programs all support subdirectories. (If they don't, then by definition they are not "modern programs"!) We have also witnessed problems caused by datapath programs. We recommend their use only if you have no other choice. NoLoc Kluger, Sigi $? is a resident utility that causes DOS to NOT search the current directory when you enter a program name (which should be of interest only to hard disk users). Instead, it will cause DOS only to search your defined PATH, which could include searching the current directory after all else fails. The point is that most, if not all, of your programs will probably be in your defined PATH, so checking the current directory first is probably a waste of time. Patha 2.2 Boucher, Henry G. $5 is an enhanced DOS Path command. It creates or modifies paths up to 1024 characters long. You can add or remove a directory to the path with a single command or manually edit the path. Several other features are included. Path Conflict Checker (PCC) Leithauser, David $5 checks all directories in your Path for duplicate file names of executable files. If you have two executables of the same name in different directories in your Path, the second one will never be executed, even if it is a COM file and the first one found is a BATch file. PathTool 2.2 (PATHTL) New World Designs $8 makes it easy to modify the path command. You can specify a location in the path to add a new directory, delete directories from the path, swap directories in the path and more. It can also create a path longer than 121 bytes, although users should be aware that long paths can slow down system response time. PathUtil 1.0 (PATHUTL) Slone, Thomas M. $0 lets you easily modify the DOS PATH from the DOS command line. It will let you insert a new directory before or after an existing directory. Unlike some PATH edit utilities, this one will work even if you have Shelled to DOS. Prompts 1.0 Hollis, Daniel K. $0 is a 1.5k TSR that displays the current path in the corner of the screen. This saves your DOS prompt from being cluttered up with that information. In fact, it looks kinda cool to just have "" as a DOS prompt - the minimalist look. The path displays only while in DOS, for some reason. Search (SRCH-AS) Arborsoft Systems, Inc. $? is a general purpose replacement for the DOS PATH command but it is much more powerful and useful than PATH. Unlike PATH, which is limited to batch and executable files, a user can access files of all types. It works with arbitrary programs on arbitrary files. Data files, overlay files, help files, batch files, executable files, text files, program files, object files and library files all become accessible. SelPath Turnock, Richard $0 allows selective PATH redirection of file accesses. The program was written primarily to avoid the requirement to load multiple copies of licensced software onto a network system when only a few files needed to be duplicated. For example, if a program used by several people in different directories requires a configuration file to be in the same directory as the program, SELPATH can be used to redirect the program's search for that file to a different directory for each user. (res:3k) XPath 3.9 (XPATHXD) XWARE Development $15 allows you make a DOS path up to 4K long by loading the path in from a text file. It is also a path editor. You can add to and delete from your path on the fly. In this regard, we found XPath to work when other such utilities would not. A directory list feature is also provided. While this is a handy utility, keep in mind that ideally, your PATH should be as short as possible if you do much work in DOS. The reason is that the longer the Path, the more directories and files DOS must check to find a program, seriously degrading response time. See "Cleaning Up Util" in 04/90 PsL News (available on disk #7090) for more information. 0277 Other ---------- Directory Commander Plus 1.2 (DCPLUS) Steenburgh, Chuck ASP $7 makes it easy to set DOS 5 DIR switches and store them in the environment so you don't have to keep typing them on the command line. Switch options can be selected from a simple, menu-driven display. DCPlus will then create a small batch file containing the options you have selected. Just execute this batch file and your preferences will be saved to the environment. Directory Dicer 1.1 (DIRDICE) Moser, A. Preston $10 is a command line driven directory comparison utility. It will also automatically execute multiple DOS commands based on the results of directory comparisons. Fantom Frequently Asked Questions 1.0 (FANTOM) (12-93 CD) Reid, Paul $0 explains why you can sometimes get an incorrect directory listing after changing floppies, and what to do about it. HD & UD Thompson, Bob $? are utilities that let you Hide and Unhide a subdirectory from a normal DIR command. HD/UD are much easier to use than the HIDE*.* utilties (following), but are also not as secure. For example, although the directory is invisible to DIR after running HD, our favorite sorted directory lister and file manager both listed it. Hide Incaprera, Charles $? let you lock out other users from access to subdirectories. It also makes the subdirectories invisible to the DIR command. HIDE does not work from the DOS command line - it prompts you for the directory name after you invoke it. For use in a batch file, you can use a keyboard stuffer, such as Stackey (2-UT-759), or create a text file with just the name of the subdirectory in it and pass it to HIDE through redirection. Example: HIDE_CD < DIR-NAME.TXT Lift2 Wragg CJ $0 lists the 20 files on your hard disk which were most currently recently accessed. This utility is of little value if you use Windows 3 regularly, since you can easily have 20 files that get routinely updated by Windows, such as the .GRP files. Otherwise, this is a very useful utility for spotting new files that may have been created without your knowledge, as well as keeping an eye on files that may need backing up. MKTree 1.0 Maximilian Kolmhuber $0 [01/94 CD] will create a directory and a specified set of subdirectories from a single DOS command line. RND 1.1 Meyer, Eric $0 [Feb. 1994 CD] lets you quickly and easily rename directories and move directory branches. XDIR 1.0 (XDIR-SP) Pandya, Sameer $0 reports disk spaced used by a directory and all subdirectories in it. It's very fast, and it has a tree-structure display. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0277 -------------------------------- --------------------------- 2005 Copy, Merge, Del DIR's Small Programs Disk --------------------------- 2005 Display Drive/SubDir Info ------------------------------- ChkDir gives a report similar to CHKDSK, but tells how space is being used by the files in the specified directory. Cpath Prescott, Richard W. $0 displays the current directory path just like "PROMPT $p$g" does, except when on floppies. The assumption is that you don't usually use subdirectories on floppies, and not displaying the path there saves the delay caused by reading the floppy to get the path, as well as obviating the "Abort, Retry, Ignore" you would get if a disk were not in the drive when you changed to it. (TSR:4k) DirSize displays the size of the current directory in bytes and in K. Dsize 1.0 Lazo, Charles III $0 shows the total disk space used in the current directory and in each of its subdirectories, plus the actual size of the files (which is less than the disk space used because DOS allocates disk space in chunks rather than to the exact size of a file), plus the amount of space that the contents of each directory would take on floppies (which have a smaller minimum allocation unit than a hard disk has). KwikTree 2.10 (KWIKTRE) Modular Software Systems $20 is a handy hard disk maintenance tool. Primarily, it displays a tree structure graphically. With options specified on the DOS command lines, it will also show space used by and number of files in each directory, allowing you to see where you can delete files to make room. You can also specify a command to be executed in each directory. Requires: DOS 3.1+. RDir 1.39 McCormick, R.P. ASP $10 displays relative directory size in pie and bar charts. It pinpoints where disk space is being used and allows you to navigate around your disk by selecting and examining directories from the list on the screen. 2005 DIR Copying, Deleting, Merging ----------------------------------- CopyDIR 3.0 C-Soft $5 will copy the files from one directory to another on the same or different drives. Before it copies a file, it will check the target directory to see if the file already exists. If the file exists, it will only copy the file if the source file is a later version and the source file has a size greater than zero. CPT is a multipurpose tool for copying, merging, and replacing files and directories. To copy files only, use the DOS COPY command. When CPT is used to merge two trees only those files that have changed may be copied. DCP 1.1 Forseth, William $20 will copy, move or delete a directory and all of its subdirectories and files. DCP will optionally copy only if the source is newer than the target; refuse to copy hidden, system or read-only files; allow a safe abort in mid-operation; and prompt for permission on all file-modifying operations. DelDir 1.2 (DDIR) Ledbetter, Keith ASP $0 will delete a directory and all of its subdirectories and the files in them with a single command. It displays the subdirectories (but not the files) first and asks if you are sure. You can override the verification prompt and the pause for full screens, it desired. DelDir 2.7 Verbeeck, Emmanuel $0 [March 1994 CD] is a file/directory/volume eraser/wiper for DOS and Novell environments. Features include support for non-empty directories, protected files, exclusions, list files, extended wildcards, local/global confirmations, and more. KillDir2 Bailey, Mike $0 deletes a directory, all of its subdirectories and all files contained in those subdirectories. Pascal source code included. MkdirBat 1.0 Cilwa, Paul S. $0 creates a batch file which, when executed, will recreate the current directory structure. Rend 1.3 Perrell, David $25 is a file and directory mover and renamer. It lets you move entire directory paths anywhere on the same drive without physically moving file data; merge two directory paths into one; rename subdirectories; and rename and/or move files anywhere on the same drive without moving data. TreeCopy (TREECOP) copies an entire directory tree. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2005 -------------------------------- ------------------------- 2169 Clean Up Directories Small Programs Disk ------------------------- Cleanup (CLEANGP) Gibson, Don P. $0 is a quick utility to search a disk's file tree and identify those tiny little mistake files of 0, 1, or 2 bytes that most of us have littered around. Each file found may be erased at your option. Cleanup is fast and slick (we put it into our UTIL subdirectory), but be sure not to delete files unless you know for sure what they are. Some programs use zero-byte files for various purposes. DSpace Lafleur, Bob $? graphically illustrates the space used by each subdirectory on your hard disk. Space wasted due to small files eating up minimum allocation units is displayed in a different color. While other utilities on the Subdirectory Utilities disk provide this information in more detail in numeric format, we found the graphic display to make it easier to spot the wasted space and quickly reclaimed 600k on our test drive. You can save a lot of disk space by combining small text files into ARC files and combining small COM files into XEQ files. DelDupe Buerg, Vernon D. $? deletes duplicate files from different directories on the same drive. Command line parameters let you control how the deleting is done. DskRpk repacks the root and all subdirectories to get rid of entries for deleted files and move up the entries for files that are still on the disk. WARNING: You should never run any kind of program like this without first making sure that all of your files are backed up. DupFind Graham, Keith P. $0 searches all disks and directories for duplicate file names and reports their location. Use it to clean up cluttered disks. FindDupe 3.9 (FINDUPE) Caleb Computer Consultants $10 reads one or more hard disks or one or more floppies and tells you if any files are duplicate in any of the devices, directories, or floppies. The program will also give you a sorted list of all the files and the Volume that they are on. The program will give you a sorted Tree directory if you ask for that option. That means you will get a sorted list of all files in your sub-directories followed by your sub-sub-directories. Logical Disk Analyzer (LDA) provides four useful reports about a hard disk: the total number of subdirectories, files and space used in each directory (including its subdirectories); a duplicate file check; a count of files with specified extensions; and a report on the physical use of your disks. Use the LDA to find out which directories are using the most space, look for duplicate or backup files, and then erase what you don't need. MemHog Vander-Schrier, Jack $0 will display to the screen or printer the 20 files hogging the most space on your disk. Note that the TREE program that comes with DOS must be available. This program will look at up to 3000 files and 200 subdirectories. Mop 1.2 Scott, William C. $5 deletes from the current directory files found in a specified location. The location may include ZIP, ARC, ZOO, PAK, LZH files (but not self-extracting archive files) or just a drive or directory. Mop makes it easy to clean up files that you have temporarily put into a directory from an archive file or from another disk or directory. Null searches a hard disk for and deletes null (zero-byte) files which some programs leave behind. Qdupe 1.5 Biron, Claude $15 searches for duplicate files on one or more drives and displays them in a sorted list on the screen. From there, you can print the list, save it to disk or compare two files byte-for-byte or delete duplicates. It also shows you the number of bytes and percentage of total disk space being used by duplicate files. Sclean helps you clean up your hard disk by diplaying the filenames in all directories and asking at each filename listed if you want to delete it. TmpSpace (TMPSPAC) Lafleur, Bob $? is a nifty little utility that goes through your hard disk looking for temporary files that you never got around to deleting. To do this it checks the TMPSPACE.TXT file which you can edit to include all or part of filenames or even subdirectories which you or your programs commonly use for temporary storage. For example, some programs create temporary files with .BAK extentions, so you could specify "*.BAK" in your TMPSPACE.TXT file. Ttfind 3.0 TriSoft Technologies $10 searches all directories for specified file(s) and displays the list of matches, with complete path and directory information, in a file-manager type of display. This is very useful for cleaning up a hard disk. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2169 -------------------------------- ----------------- 2410 File Finders Small Programs Disk ----------------- Note: The best general-purpose file finder is (in our opinion) FIND, by Bruce Gavin, which is full-featured and much faster than all the others except TF77, which is just a basic, one-drive file-finder that will not search archive files. The others in this section have different specialized features that may be of value to some people, however. AllFiles 1.00 Beckwitt, David $20 finds files anywhere on a disk base on the file name, including DOS wild cards, substrings of a filename, file dates, and file attributes. It also allows you to combine these parameters with "and, or, not, ()". Matching files are displayed in a scrollable window from where you can browse any file or delete files. QFind 3.0 Gavin, Bruce $23-$30 is an ultra fast file finder. It supports extended disk partitions, all standard DOS wildcard configurations, and automatic search of multiple drives. Options include single drive search, verbose path display, and hidden-file-only searches. It has support for directories bigger than 64k, support for 80x43 and 132x43 screen sizes. A search that took 8.46 seconds with another "fast" file finder took only 3.90 seconds with Gavin's Find. It also features a ZIP file search, an auto-wildcard filename parser, an embedded fuzzy search parser, and support for 11 byte PATHNAME.EXT path names. Since Kwast, Kevin A. $0 reports on how many files which have changed since a specific date and time. Supersonic Search Tool 5.2b (SST) Ledbetter, Keith ASP $15 (formerly WhereIs) is a hard disk file finding utility. It is relatively slow, but is rich in options. It allows searching all drives for files by names (wildcards allowed and character ranges can be given), including Archive files, date and time ranges, file size ranges and display only duplicate filename entries. These search criteria can be combined. It will optionally search the contents of archive files, including looking for corrupted ZIP files. It has the ability to execute DOS commands on any matches found, with replaceable command-line parameters. The program also displays file descriptions from 4DOS/Taxi. It can also search for .COM and .EXE files that have been compressed with PKLite. TF77 Giroux, Paul $5 is the file-finding champ. In a comparison test, the old champ, FINDIT, took 7.3 seconds to find specified files. TF77 took an amazing 2.3 seconds. This is even more amazing when you consider that FINDIT it used to blow away the competition. If we went back to some of the old file finders, they might take 30 seconds or more for the same search! -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2410 -------------------------------- -------------------- 3409 File Finders #2 Small Programs Disk -------------------- DCWhere Craig, David $? locates files anywhere on your hard disk. We have other programs that do this, but the display of this one appealed to librarian Duane Hendricks. The documentation also includes some useful information on file attributes. Fast File Find 3.4.5 (FFF) Williams, Don A. $0 is a fast file finder. It will search for files on one or more disks and will optionally search inside of ZIP, ARC, PKA, or ZOO archive files. Multiple patterns can be specified and FFF will search for all of them in a single pass. C source code included. Files will list all files on a device that match a specified id. FILES is similar to other file-locating utilities but fast and enables one to specify a pseudo-root directory, enables searching for multiple files in the same invocation, and uses the same display format as KEDIT's DIR command. Ffind 1.33 Okubo, K. $0 is a file finder which searches for specified filenames in all directories on all drives, as well as in most archive files. Archive formats supported include LHarc, Larc, Arc, Pak and PKzip. Global O'Connor, Kevin $? searches all subdirectories or a specified path for a file and, optionally, performs a specified function on the file when found. For example GLOBAL *.BAK \WS "DEL *.BAK" would delete all files with an extension of BAK in the directory WS and any of its subdirectories. Locate 1.0 (LOCATE) (11-93 CD) Crandall, Terry $0 searches for files on one or more drives. Options include searching floppies and network drives; filtering by file attribute, size, and date range; and executing commands on found files. This has become our favorite file finder already. C source code is included. Look4 Swift-Ware $0 is an extremely fast file search utility that will search through all specified drives in all directories and ZIP, LZH, and ARC files. A range of drives to be searched may be specified. LstDsk Madison, Bill $0 is another utility for searching a hard disk for a specified file name. LstDsk is unique in its use of DOS wildcards. For example DIR LS*K.DOC would display all DOC files starting with LS, ignoring any letters after the asterisk (eg: LSTDSK.DOC and LSORT.DOC would both be displayed). LSTDSK does not ignore characters after the asterisk (eg: LSTDSK LS*K.DOC would display LSTDSK.DOC, LSOAK.DOC but not LSORT.DOC, which has no "K" in it.) SPath Byers, Jeff $0 will search the current directory and your defined PATH for specified executable files. This is a handy way to see if a program is accessible via the PATH. SuperFind 4.7 (SF) (11-93 CD) Dight, David L. $0 is a different kind of file finder. It reads all your drives once, then lets you interactively search for files based on name, attribute, date, and size. It can also execute commands on found files. Because it does not have to re-read the drives each time, it is ideal when you are searching for more than one file. SF also lets you shell to DOS so that you can return to SF later without having to re-read the drives. WhenIs 1.2 Rein, Tony $5 is a directory search program which can find files by date or time criteria, as well as searching for file names. This is a very useful variation of the old WHERE-IS utility. Some of the powerful (and complex) utilities like DX can do this function, but When-Is makes it easy. An example of its use is if you were looking for a file that you know you created around the middle of May, but you can't remember the name or what directory it is in, you could enter WI AFTER 5-10-91 AND BEFORE 5-20-91. When-Is will quickly display all the names and locations of all files on your hard disk that fall within that range. VLF 3.20 Software Appliances $0 is a multi-featured file search utility. It can search across directories and drives, find hidden files, display from 1-5 files per line, set the DOS ERRORLEVEL for batch file use, and more. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3409 -------------------------------- Advocate Directory Utilities 2.0 Olsen, J. W. $30 #12090 is a set of four subdirectory-related utilities. ATREE, a directory tree display utility, and CDX, a fast directory changing utility, are not as good as similar utilities in the library, but ADIR and ASCOUT have some worthwhile features. ADIR is a sorted directory lister that will let you see up to four directories at once in columns. ASCOUT is a file finder with a "fuzzy" search feature: it will search for text embedded in file names, for example. However, it does not recognize a blank extension; ie: "ASCOUT *." will not display files with no extension. All utilities work with DOS 2 - 4. File Finder Pack 4.4 [FFF_JD] California Software Design, ASP $25 #12673 [March 1994 CD] will find files on your hard disk and present them in a scrollable list. It will optionally search inside ARC, LZH and ZIP files or by filedate. The file list may be sorted by name, ext, date, size, path and you can display the list in one of two different formats. From the scrollable list you can delete or execute files. You can also tell it to execute a command on the files that it finds as it finds them; files can even be found based on file attributes. Other features include the ability to perform operations on groups of tagged files; an option to shell to DOS; and the ability to enter a skeleton command and indicate where to plug in the highlighted file name(s). The program is network aware and automatically searches all local and hard drives for files. Support is also provided for ARJ compression files and for LHA 2.05, 2.10 and 2.11 files. It can be configured to handle up to 9000 files and 300 directories, and fuzzy searches are supported. Path Master 4.0 Smith, David $10 #12349 is a path changing utility. It allows you to select the path from a menu, configure 20 paths, add a directory to the path or delete one. You can change the path on the command line or use a mouse on a menu. A bar graph shows how much space you have used in your environment, the hex address of the current environment's beginnings, and more. PocketD 3.1 [POCK31] PocketWare ASP $35 #4033 (01-94 CD) is a file utility with over 120 options. Features include directory listing, optimized file copying to multiple disks, searching across multiple drives and subdirectories, viewing of text or hex files, advanced string searching, safe file and subtree copying and moving, advanced wildcard matching, attribute and date/time modifying, file list browsing, viewing and searching of archived files, PKLITE/DIET/LZEXE detection, 37 user-defined parameters, display of program execution size, multi-key sorting, multiple display formats, environment variable and execution template allowing other utilities to be emulated and more. ]]]]]