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- File Finder/Grouper Release Summary
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- 1.53 8/4/93 - Adds range capability to day-of-week date specs (e.g.,
- /dSA-SU for weekend files, /dMO-FR for weekday files)
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- - Adds NOT capability for attributes switch e.g., /a!S
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- 1.52 7/25/93 - Adds preliminary wild path capability - this feature may be
- further refined
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- - Keeps running meter visible when output redirected to a file
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- - Improves Archive search speed for small archived files and
- generally improves Archive search efficiency
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- - Adds on-the-fly ability to turn on beep-when-done switch
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- - Improved search speed when NameMask is such that standard DOS
- wildcard conventions can be used.
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- - **IMPORTANT** Discontinues use of '+' to separate multiple
- file masks. Use comma intead.
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- - Adds ability to specify file masks as patterns of
- alternatives. For example:
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- All executables: *.[com,exe,bat]
- All Archive Programs: *[zip,arj,arc,lha,pak,zoo]*.[exe,com]
- C source code files: *.[c,h][,pp]
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- Note that bracketed terms may be nested:
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- Configuration files: *c[[o,]n,]f[i,]g*
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- A slash '/' can be used in lieu of the comma to separate
- alternatives in the file name masks. This was required to
- that the name mask could be passed to FFG as a batch file
- command line argument. If commas were used, DOS would parse
- the command line using the commas.
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- - Improves appearance of display of directories for directory
- search
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- - Adds a "Stop after one find" option '/1'
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- - Adds a "Beep" option (/b) which will cause beeps when program
- is done (d), user is prompted (p), file is found (f) and/or
- an error occurs (e). If only /b is specified beeps occur for
- all of the above. To get beeps for only some of the above
- add P,F,D,E as appropriate after the /b.
- - Adds a "Quiet" option (/q) which suppresses all screen output
- Can selectively force display of Title, Files, Summary, Meter
- by putting t,f,s, and/or m after /q. For example, /qms
- suppresses all screen output but running meter and summary.
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- 1.51 6/5/93 - Adds "Execute Command" option (/e) which allows a command to
- be executed for each found file
- - While searching through an archive FFG will respond more
- quickly to user keypresses.
- - For files found in archives, the file attributes are reported
- as *ZIP, *LZH, *ARC... to indicate the archive type
- - Adds a "Skip rest of drive" feature by pressing 's' during search
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- 1.50 5/10/93 - Fixes bug where /g switch did not change into found directory
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- 1.49 5/9/93 - Causes all DOS "Drive not ready" errors to be ignored
- - Determines whether drives are logical drives at one time to improve
- reliability of the logical drive determination·
- - Fixed bug where only first of multiple drive ranges in DriveSpec was
- considered. For example, a-df-z:*.* would have searched only d: through f:
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- 1.48 5/8/93 - Fixes bug where "/fb." displays 0s and 1s instead of a period '.'
- - Returns result codes: 1 = found, 0 = not found (and other
- error codes), which can be checked using DOS "if errorlevel"
- command.
- - Adds new output format specifier 'n' for full file name (same as 'f.e')
- - Changed Abort/interrupt message to appear even if summary display is turned off
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- 1.47 5/4/93 - Adds a "bytes occupied" report to summary, which reports the
- total disk space used by the found files.
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- 1.46 5/1/93 - Fixes bug where root files were reported in current directory
- - Updated help/usage screens
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- 1.45 4/27/93 - Improves speed of archive file searches by up to factor of 2.4
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