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- Documentation for WHEREIS command
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- Purpose: Searches for specified file(s) through all DOS
- 2.0 directories, listing matching files with their
- appropriate directories and sub-directories.
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- Format: WHEREIS [filename[.ext]]
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- Type: External
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- Remarks: This command is from the January 1984 issue of
- "Softalk for the IBM Personal Computer" by John
- Socha. It will work correctly on the volume on
- which it is resident. It does not automatically
- cross over onto other volumes. (Note the absence
- of an optional volume label in the format
- description. The following examples demonstrate
- proper usage (where {CR} indicates a carriage
- return:
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- WHEREIS myfile.txt {CR}
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- WHEREIS myfile.* {CR}
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- WHEREIS *.bas {CR}
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- WHEREIS *.* {CR}
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- WHEREIS is an MSDOS 2.00 generic utility that searches all
- subdirectories for matching file names. This is very useful, and saves
- a lot of hair pulling when you know the file is somewhere ...
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- Run it by:
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- WHEREIS <filespec>
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- <filespec> can contain wildcards. No matter what the current
- directory is, WHEREIS will search the entire disk, and list the
- directory(s) where the file resides.
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- The author of this program is unknown.
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- rch the entire disk, and list the
- directory(s) where the file resides.
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- The author of this program is unknown.
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