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Introduction.
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This is pretty simply utility that addresses a problem that I was
having with my board. That was that there were time that the free
space on my hard drive diminshed and I wanted to know where it went.
So I wrote this utility to find all the big files on my system.
Distribution.
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Bigsrch is published as freeware, that is, you are free to use
it and distribute it as long as you do not charge for it. No fees of
any sort are authorized to be asked for, accepted or collected and
any and all alterations are expressly prohibited. There are no
warranties of any sort, expressed or implied, that accompany this
program. Use at your own risk. Sorry.
Command line parameters.
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The program takes two command line arguments. The first is
mandatory and the second is optional. A sample command looks like
this:
BIGSRCH 100000 Y:\MSG
BIGSRCH 10k
The above commands, explained.
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The second parameter is the minimum size of the file (in bytes).
This value may also end with a 'k' or 'm' (upper or lower case) to
denote kilobytes or megabytes. The third option parameter is for
specifing a drive and/or pathname. If only a drive is entered (no
backslashes) then the program assumes that you are starting at the
root of the drive specified. Any back slash is assumed to imply that
a path has been specified. Searching will begin at the path
specified and work downward on the directory tree.
This is about it. If it works for you - great! If not, drop me
a line via the InterLink Sysop echo or on my system!
Bruce Ackerson
The Redundant Department of Redundancy Department
(801) 272-7057
Revision notes.
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I am hoping that this meets the needs of anyone else who uses it.
However I will keep a revision list just in case someone comes up
with some additions or corrections (let's hope not).
v1.0 Feb 5, 91 First release.
v1.1 Feb 6, 91 Made a small mistake in the syntax error
message.
v1.2 Feb 7, 91 Added support for 'k' and 'm' suffix after
the file size to enhance ease of use. Also
added commas in the output for ease of
reading.
v1.3 Feb 11, 91 Ah the trials and tribulations. A corrupt
compiler library got me this time. Hopefully
all is fixed. Also we are back to a smaller
COM file instead of an EXE file.
v1.4 Nov 24, 91 Cleaned up the output. Now much easier to read.