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Online Reference Software
Assembly language software products
providing maximum performance in a
minimum amount of space.
QFIND - fastest file and zip search for DOS
Users Manual - November 28, 1992
Page 1
LICENSE STATEMENT
Online Reference hereby grants you, the user, a non-exclusive
license to use QFIND in its delivered form.
You may use the registered version of the software on any
computer, provided that the software can in no way be used on
more than one computer at the same time.
You are encouraged to freely copy and distribute the share
ware version of the software as long as it is not modified or
missing any of the component files.
WARRANTY
Online Reference warrants software delivered by diskette to
be an accurate copy of the master diskette. Defective
diskettes will be replaced free of charge within 60 days
after purchase.
Online Reference explicitly disclaims all other warranties
whether expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any
particular purpose. Online Reference shall have no liability
for consequential, incidental, exemplary or special damages,
including lost profits.
Online Reference reserves the right to improve or change the
product at any time without prior notice.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Completing the registration form and paying the published
fees for the software, qualifies the owner for technical
support.
Page 2
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.............................................. 5
Overview.............................................. 5
File contents......................................... 5
Enhancements.......................................... 5
FEATURES OVERVIEW......................................... 6
Standard Features summary............................. 6
Advanced Features summary............................. 6
QINST..................................................... 7
Overview.............................................. 7
Colors................................................ 8
Drive Search Range.................................... 9
Command Line Switches.................................10
CGA Snow Checking.....................................10
STANDARD FEATURES
Performance...........................................11
DOS Wildcards.........................................12
Elapsed Time..........................................12
DOS Directory Format..................................13
Intelligent I/O.......................................13
Long Screen Support...................................13
Dynamic Memory Allocation.............................14
EMS Memory............................................14
Extended Disk Partitions..............................15
Multi-Drive Search....................................15
SNAPSHOT Disk Dump....................................15
ADVANCED FEATURES
Fuzzy Search..........................................16
Command Line Switches.................................17
/G - Goto first match.............................17
/H - Hidden Search................................17
/L - List Buffer..................................17
/P - Pause Full Screen............................18
/S - Single Drive.................................18
/V - Verbose Path.................................18
/Z - ZIP Search...................................18
Page 3
CONTENTS
IMPLEMENTATION
Technical Data........................................19
PIF...................................................20
DOS Error Level.......................................20
CGA Snow Checking.....................................20
Error Messages........................................21
Switch Summary........................................22
Command Line Examples.................................23
SUBST drives..........................................25
Networks and OS/2.....................................25
DesqView..............................................25
SUPPORT
Bug Reports...........................................26
BBS System............................................26
Page 4
INTRODUCTION
QFIND is an ultra high speed file finding program.
It searches the disk drive(s) for the specified files using
the standard DOS drive, file name and wild card structure.
The registered version will optionally search ZIP (tm) files.
The unregistered version contains the following files:
o README - Shareware distribution instructions
o README.PRN - Document printing instructions
o QFIND.DOC - This file
o QFIND.EXE - Uses intelligent output display
o QFIND.HST - History file QFIND versions
o QFIND.HDR - CompuServe file description header
o QFIND.KEY - CompuServe file description keywords
o QINST.EXE - Installation and customization program
o SNAPSHOT.EXE - Capture disk sectors for bug reports
o ORDER.FRM - Ordering and registration form
QFIND is not public domain nor free software.
The unregistered version is a full speed, complete file
finder. Its capacity and performance have not been
degraded in any way.
Enhancements:
o ZIP file search
o Fuzzy name search
o Installation program
o Speed
o Color
o Single or Multiple drive search
o Elapsed time
o Exclusive hidden file search
o Standard DOS display format
o Intelligent output display
o Support 80x43 and 132x43 screen sizes
o EMS memory used when available
o DOS 5 extended disk partition support
o Dynamic data segment allocation
o Debugging aid
o DesqView aware
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FEATURES
Standard features:
o Install program
o Speed
o Automatic search of multiple drives
o Automatic wild card names
o Colors
o Elapsed Time
o Display uses DOS directory format
o Intelligent I/O
o Long screen support
o Dynamic memory allocation
o EMS memory support
o Extended disk partitions
o SNAPSHOT debugging aid
o DesqView aware
Registered features:
o Fuzzy search for embedded name characters
o Search single drive only
o Hidden-only file search
o Pause when screen is full
o Verbose path display
o Goto first match
o Scroll buffer
o CGA snow check control
o ZIP file search
Page 6
INSTALLATION
--------
OVERVIEW
--------
QFIND incorporates an installation program named QINST that
will customize QFIND for user-specified colors and options.
QINST is version sensitive, and will complain if the version
is incorrect. Unregistered and Registered versions of the
software are unique and cannot be mixed.
The installation program expects to locate QFIND.EXE
in the default directory. The file name must be unchanged
from the distribution disk to install properly.
Once installed, QFIND may be freely renamed.
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INSTALLATION
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COLORS
------
The user may configure the text and inverse video colors used
by QFIND during operation. The banner colors are fixed and
cannot be changed. The default value is to accept whatever
colors are found at the cursor location when QFIND loads.
Invoke QINST and choose the Customize Colors option from the
main menu.
The Normal Text and Inverse Video data are displayed
in the colors currently installed in QFIND.
The un-installed version of QFIND defaults to whatever colors
are present at the cursor when the program is invoked.
QINST provides an option on the Colors Menu to restore the
defaults.
QINST displays the default colors in black and white until
they are changed. The demo strings are displayed in the new
color after each selection. The colors are not installed in
QFIND until the user exits QINST.
The user is prompted to enter the hexadecimal values for
the text or inverse video option. The number is always
entered as a 2 digit number. Results are unpredictable
if a single digit is entered.
The left number is the Background color.
The right number is the Foreground color.
07 = White text on black
17 = White text on blue
70 = Black text on white (inverse)
The user may enter any value up to FF, if the blink is
desired. The color banners are fixed colors, and may not
be changed by the user.
TEXT colors are for the file name matches displayed when
QFIND executes. A file that matches the input argument will
be displayed as a TEXT color, even if it is a ZIP file.
INVERSE colors are for the subdirectory names and/or ZIP file
names that are displayed. A ZIP file holding a member file
that matches the input argument is displayed in INVERSE
color. The member will be displayed in TEXT color.
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INSTALLATION
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DRIVE RANGE
-----------
The user may configure QFIND to stop searching after a
specified drive letter. This will be useful to those who
have a network drive and don't wish to search all logical
drives.
Floppy drives that have been ASSIGNED to a higher letter may
also be bypassed using this configuration option. The
default is for drive 'Z'.
Invoke QINST and choose the Drive Search Range option from
the main menu.
The current highest drive will display as a drive letter.
The default value in QFIND is 'Z'. The default value for
the starting drive is the first hard drive.
QFIND begins its search with the first hard drive, unless
the command line file name contains a drive letter or the
first starting drive is set with QINST.
In either case, the search will automatically increment the
drive number until no more drives are left to search. Any
drive that appears as a valid DOS disk will be searched.
If the user has ASSIGNED a floppy drive as a different drive
with a letter higher than the last hard disk, it too will be
searched. QFIND will pause for a moment if the floppy is
empty, and then quit. Installing the highest search drive
option will stop QFIND from searching assigned drives.
Another use is on a very large drive, that goes from C to W
or even higher. In spite of QFIND's tremendous speed, it
will still slow down on a very large drive, particularly so,
if that drive contains many ZIP files.
The user can limit the search range by using the
Highest Search option.
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INSTALLATION
--------
SWITCHES
--------
The user may configure QFIND for any of the command line
switches. These switches are actually toggles, and may
be overridden on the command line.
If the /Z switch is set by QINST, using it on the command
line will toggle it to OFF for a one-time run of QFIND.
-----------------
CGA SNOW CHECKING
-----------------
QINST is invoked without a command line name. An optional
command line argument [/OFF] will bypass CGA snow checking
for machines that have problems with it, or don't need it.
e.g. QINST /OFF
This switch will force QINST to run with snow checking
disabled. The user may install this option into QFIND by
selecting the SWITCHES entry on the first menu.
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STANDARD FEATURES
-----------
PERFORMANCE
-----------
QFIND is significantly faster than other file finders.
The following times were derived from the OLR BBS server.
Files=32, Buffers=25, No cache, Defragged disk.
827 - normal files
712 - zip files
7259 - zip members
16 Mhz 80286
82mb C:
DOS 5.0
┌──────────┬──────┬───────┐
ZIP │ QFIND222 │ :39 │ 1107% │
Search ├──────────┼──────┼───────┤
│ PKFIND10 │ 7:12 │ 100% │
├──────────┼──────┼───────┤
│ SST 53a │ 7:12 │ 100% │
└──────────┴──────┴───────┘
┌──────────┬──────┬───────┐
Normal │ QFIND222 │ 1.65 │ 276% │
Search ├──────────┼──────┼───────┤
│ PKFIND10 │ 4.56 │ 100% │
├──────────┼──────┼───────┤
│ SST 53a │ 5.47 │ 83% │
└──────────┴──────┴───────┘
Other file finders were tested but not included.
They were unable to read the ZIP files or crashed under
the large disk partition.
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STANDARD FEATURES
-----------------------
DOS Automatic Wildcards
-----------------------
QFIND uses the DOS wildcard system for command line
arguments.
FILENAME. = FILENAME.
FILENAME = FILENAME.???
FILE = FILE????.???
FILE. = FILE .???
.EXE = ????????.EXE
*123.*45 = ????????.???
. = ????????.
.* = ????????.???
*.* = ????????.???
* = ????????.???
*. = ????????.
*.X* = ????????.X??
------------
Elapsed Time
------------
QFIND displays the total amount of time required to search
all drive(s).
Totals are displayed for number of files matching the input
argument, total number of files, and number of directories.
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STANDARD FEATURES
--------------------
DOS Directory Format
--------------------
QFIND displays all file data in the DOS directory format.
All file data exactly matches the DOS location and format
conventions.
The file attributes are appended to the standard DOS display
as both a hex number and their associated name(s).
--------------------------
Intelligent output display
--------------------------
QFIND determines if DOS I/O redirection to a disk file or
printer is active.
When redirection is active, all output is displayed a second
time using DOS. All screen output except the author banners
are then output to the redirected device or file.
For the screen, the color attribute found at the starting
cursor location is used.
QFIND automatically uses whichever video page number is
active at start up. The user video configuration remains
unchanged.
-------------------
Long screen support
-------------------
QFIND uses the screen mode that is active at start up.
The 80x43 and 132x43 text screens are supported.
40 column mode is not supported.
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STANDARD FEATURES
-------------------------
Dynamic Memory Allocation
-------------------------
Internal data segment sizes are allocated on the fly for each
logical drive that is searched. Memory is allocated in the
exact amount required for each drive.
Assume no EMS memory, extended disk partitions and options
enabled for a worst-case memory map:
■ 13k code and stack space
■ 128k FAT table
■ 64k path table
■ 64k scroll buffer
■ 64k minimum directory data
■ 16k floating zip segment
-------------------------
349k memory requirements
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EMS memory support
------------------
QFIND will utilize up to 12 pages of EMS memory for the path
table and scroll buffer. This increases the directory data
space by 132k, and reduces a potential out-of-memory error
when searching large subdirectories.
QFIND identifies the EMMXXXX0 device drive signature then
allocates EMS memory via DOS interrupt 67h with LIM 3.2
or higher. The current context mapping is saved at entry
and is then restored when QFIND terminates.
QFIND currently supports 512 directories, and an unlimited
amount of files.
QFIND can execute as a child process of a parent that uses
EMS memory without interfering with the parents' data.
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STANDARD FEATURES
-------------------------------
Extended disk partition support
-------------------------------
QFIND supports DOS disk partitions greater than 32mb.
Note that QFIND will not work on some non-DOS partitions. A
valid DOS boot sector is required on each drive that is
searched.
Use the DOS FDISK command to DISPLAY the partition table
information when a non-DOS partition is suspected.
---------------------
Multiple Drive Search
---------------------
QFIND will search multiple drives in ascending order starting
with the drive specified by the user. If none is specified
then the first hard disk is assumed.
Note that systems without a hard drive or ram disk must
ALWAYS specify the drive letter. QFIND defaults to the first
drive after the last installed floppy disk.
------------------
SNAPSHOT Disk Dump
------------------
The SNAPSHOT utility captures only the Boot sector, the FAT
tables, and the ROOT directory. No user data is dumped.
The captured data is then written to SNAPSHOT.DAT on the
default drive.
The utility does not dump SUBST, JOINed, NETWORK, or OS/2
drives. It utilizes Undocumented DOS Function 52h to
determine the drive type and location of user data.
DOS versions 3.1 and higher are supported.
In debugging mode, QFIND operates on this disk image the
same as it would on a real disk. The program can be single
cycled to determine the exact nature of the problem.
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ADVANCED FEATURES
------------
Fuzzy Search
-------------
QFIND will support the following command line arguments for
embedded characters.
Bracketing a string of characters with '*' tells the
parser to match that sequence of characters anywhere in
the file name and/or extension.
Rules:
(1) A fuzzy search field must begin with the asterisk (*)
in the first position of the name or file extension.
(2) At least one valid DOS character must be between the two
asterisk brackets. The '?' wildcard is valid.
Two consecutive asterisk will return an error.
(3) The fuzzy character count can be no more than 8 for the
name field, or 3 for the extension field.
This count does not include the brackets (*).
An over length name or extension returns an error.
A full length field of fuzzy bytes will be interpreted as
a non-fuzzy search, and no error will be returned.
IB*AB* = IB?????? .???
*IB*.COM = <<IB>> .COM
*IB* = <<IB>> .???
*IB*.i* = <<IB>> .i??
*IB*.*i* = <<IB>> . <<i>>
*I?M*.COM = <<I?M>> .COM
*1234567*.*12* = <<1234567>> . <<12>>
*12345678* = 12345678 .??? ; Legal but useless
LOTUS.*123* = LOTUS .123 ; Legal but useless
*123456789* = ERROR ; Over length name
**.Exe = ERROR ; Double splats together
LOTUS.*1234* = ERROR ; Over length extent
*A*B*C.EXE = ERROR ; More than 2 '*' wildcards
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COMMAND LINE SWITCHES
Switches are available in the Registered version only.
Invoke QINST and choose the Command Line Switches option.
All the currently supported command line switch states will
be displayed. The user is provided with a menu to
individually set a switch, or to clear all switches.
---------------------
/G - Goto First Match
---------------------
When set, QFIND will display the drive, path, and file name
of the first file that matches the input argument.
The default drive and path will be set to that of the matched
file, and the program will terminate.
----------------------
/H - Hidden Files Only
----------------------
When set, QFIND will search all drive(s) and display only
those files which have the SYSTEM or HIDDEN bits set in
their directory entry.
This search will pick up the DOS system files, and all
volume labels. Any other hidden files, such as those
installed by copy protection programs will also be displayed.
Subdirectories marked as hidden are not displayed.
-----------------------
/L - List Scroll Buffer
-----------------------
When set, QFIND will keep an internal scroll buffer capable
of displaying the first 64k of output. When QFIND has
completed it search, the user may use the cursor keys to
scroll up and down in the buffer.
The scroll buffer can display at least 819 lines of output
without having to redirect the output to a disk file.
Larger requirements dictate the use of a disk redirection
file. Screen output is turned off when /L is active.
I/O redirection cancels the scroll buffer.
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COMMAND LINE SWITCHES
Switches are available in the Registered version.
--------------------------
/P - Pause for Full Screen
--------------------------
When set, QFIND will pause when the screen is full and prompt
the user to hit any key to continue. The top screen banner
will scroll off leaving all of the following screens at full
length for output display. Each subsequent screen will also
pause when full.
The /L option will disable the pause switch.
------------------------
/S - Single drive search
------------------------
When set, QFIND will only search a single drive.
If no drive letter is given with the command line argument
the default drive is searched.
A drive letter given in the command line will cause QFIND to
begin the search at that drive, and stop when the specified
drive is complete.
-------------------------
/V - Verbose path display
-------------------------
When set, QFIND will display all subdirectories searched.
This is useful for building a list of all subdirectories
on all drive(s) searched.
This switch is also used if QFIND is suspected of not finding
a subdirectory. Junk is an indicator of a bug in QFIND or
other disorder such as a cross-linked subdirectory.
--------------------
/Z - ZIP file search
--------------------
When set, QFIND will open and search all ZIP files.
Any ZIP member that matches the input argument will be
displayed. The ZIP file holding that member will be
displayed in Inverse video, as a subdirectory would be.
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IMPLEMENTATION
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Technical Data
--------------
Screen performance has been improved by utilizing direct
screen writes. Snow prevention is implemented only when
the CGA card is detected. Snow checking is disabled when
DesqView is active.
QFIND uses IOCTL function 4408h to check each drive to
determine if it is removable or fixed media. Removable media
drives are read with BIOS, and fixed drives are read with
DOS. This bypasses the DOS error message that is generated
when the drive door is open.
QFIND uses the DOS direct read interrupt Int25h.
DOS 4 and higher versions deviate from earlier versions in
the manner that this interrupt is implemented. QFIND
automatically uses the extended partition calling convention
for DOS 4 and up. QFIND operates correctly under MS-DOS 5.0
and the extended size disk partitions it supports.
QFIND takes over one interrupt vector, Int23h (Control
Break). The control break allows the user to quit QFIND at
any
point during the execution.
The vector is restored upon any exit from the program.
A user entered ^C causes the program to terminate and
restore the ^C vector at exit.
QFIND performs direct reads of the disk and can not damage
the integrity of the disk. No writes are done to the disk.
QFIND is written entirely in Turbo Assembler v3.2.
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IMPLEMENTATION
---
PIF
---
QFIND is 'ill behaved' in screen management functions
as direct screen writes are used.
QFIND is 'ill behaved' for vectors as it takes over Int 23h,
the Control-Break vector.
--------------
DOS ERRORLEVEL
--------------
0 - No errors
1 - Parsing error
2 - Insufficient Memory
3 - DOS read error
4 - Invalid boot sector
5 - User ^C
6 - Network was found
-----------------
CGA SNOW CHECKING
-----------------
CGA snow checking will be implemented when a successful
test of the retrace hardware has been completed.
Some oddball mono-graphics cards do not correctly support the
horizontal retrace bit in CGA status port 3DAh. The result
is QFIND hanging forever waiting for the bit to change state.
The test first waits for the retrace bit to become clear,
then waits for it to set again. If either test fails, then
the retrace hardware is assumed defective and snow checking
is disabled. It is also disabled when DesqView is active.
Non-standard use of this port can cause unpredictable
results. If this is suspected, the user may enable or
disable CGA snow checking from the SET SWITCHES panel of
QINST. This will override the start up tests and force the
CGA snow testing into the mode selected by the user.
The suggested method is to set CGA snow checking to OFF which
will bypass any potential hang condition. If no screen snow
is encountered, leave the switch off. Performance is
significantly improved with snow checking turned off.
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IMPLEMENTATION
--------------
Error Messages
--------------
'Unable to locate or read header for..'
o The ZIP file is damaged or corrupted.
'Logic error locating central directory for '
o Internal error in QFIND
'Insufficient memory to search this subdirectory'
o A subdirectory greater than 64k is being searched
and not enough memory is available to load it.
o /L switch has requested a scroll buffer and no EMS
memory is available. Scroll buffer removes 64k of
DOS memory that is available for directory loads.
o QFIND is trying to run in 384k or less.
o QFIND is running from another program which has
SHELL'd out to DOS
'Insufficient memory to search xxx.ZIP'
o Not enough free memory available to load the ZIP
file central directory for searching.
'Invalid boot sector for drive x:'
o Non-standard DOS boot sector was detected.
Bytes per sector is zero or not contained in the
set of 64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192.
o Boot sector has returned Zero bytes per sector
Specialized RAM disks such as some AST products
do not utilize a standard DOS boot sector.
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IMPLEMENTATION
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Usage
-----
Valid switches are: /G /H /L /P /S /V /Z
/G - Goto Match
The default drive and directory are changed to
that of the first matching file.
/H - Hidden file(s)
Only file attributes that match either the
system or hidden bits will be displayed.
This switch disables the /Z switch.
/L - List scroll buffer
The first 819 lines of output are saved in a
scrollable buffer.
This switch disables the /P switch.
I/O redirection cancels this switch.
/P - Pause mode
The program will pause when the screen is full.
/S - Single drive
Only a single drive will be searched.
If not specified, the default drive is assumed.
Otherwise, the first file specified by the user
is the only drive searched.
/V - Verbose path display
Every path searched will be displayed.
Useful to build a complete path table of the
specified drive(s) by searching for a non-
existent file.
/Z - search zip files
All PKZIP files will be searched for member(s)
matching the input argument.
Corrupted ZIP files will be identified with an
error message. Empty ZIP files are not
reported.
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IMPLEMENTATION
---------------------
Command Line Examples
---------------------
QFIND file
Start with the default hard drive.
No dot defaults to all file extensions.
Match all occurrences of 'file????.???'
QFIND file.
Start with the default hard drive.
The dot specifies no file extension.
Confine match to 'file'.
QFIND *
Start with the default hard drive.
Find all files.
QFIND *.*
Start with the default hard drive.
Find all files.
QFIND *.* /H
Start with the default hard drive.
Find hidden files only.
QFIND *.* /V
Start with the default hard drive.
Display all paths as they are scanned.
QFIND *.* /H /S
Start with the default drive.
Find hidden files only.
Check only the default drive.
QFIND A:*.*
Start with the A: drive.
Find all files.
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IMPLEMENTATION
---------------------
Command Line Examples
---------------------
QFIND G:*.* /S
Start with the G: drive.
Find all files.
Check only the G: drive.
QFIND *.* /H /S > PRN
Start with the default hard drive.
Find hidden files only.
Check only the first hard drive.
Redirect output to printer.
QFIND *.* /H /S > C:\Temp\Dir.Lst
Start with the default hard drive.
Find hidden files only.
Check only the first hard drive.
Redirect output to disk file on drive C:
QFIND *IBM*
Find any occurrence of the letters 'IBM' in
the file name field. The file extent field
defaults to .???
QFIND *IB??IO*
Find any occurrence of the letters 'IB??IO' in
the file name field. The file extent field
defaults to '.???'.
This example would find IBMBIO.COM.
QFIND *.*A*
Find any occurrence of the letter 'A' in the
the file extension field. The letter can be
in position 1,2, or 3. The file name field
defaults to '????????'.
QFIND E:Command.Com /G
Find COMMAND.COM starting with the E: drive and
change to the drive:directory where it was found.
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IMPLEMENTATION
------------
SUBST Drives
------------
DOS allows disk subdirectories to appear as a different
drive letter. This is done by using the SUBST command.
'SUBST E: C:\UTIL' will cause the C:\UTIL subdirectory
to appear as Drive E:.
QFIND and many DOS commands will ignore a SUBST drive.
Under DOS 5.0, the following commands will not work, or are
not recommended with a SUBST drive:
Assign Diskcopy Mirror
Backup FDisk Recover
Chkdsk Format Restore
Diskcomp Label Sys
-----------------
NETWORKS and OS/2
-----------------
The current version QFIND does not support network drives
or OS/2. It will complain and exit if either is detected.
OS/2 is identified by checking the DOS version. A major
value of 10 (OS/2 v1.0) or higher is returned by OS/2.
--------
DESQVIEW
--------
QFIND is DesqView aware. It will make a call to DesqView to
determine the location of the DV Alternate Screen Buffer.
This display buffer will be used for all screen writes.
Cursor control and keyboard routines are done entirely with
BIOS. This enables QFIND to run in the background in a small
window. No polling is done during scroll buffer viewing.
This allows DesqView to swap out QFIND when it is waiting for
user input.
The video display routines are coded as 'DesqView Critical'.
The message display routine cannot be swapped out until it
has completed its function. Other than the color banners,
a message display is a single line of text.
QFIND crashes with old versions of QEMM (v5.00).
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SUPPORT
-----------
BUG Reports
-----------
Bug reports are welcomed.
1) Make/Version of DOS
2) Copy of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
3) Names of TSRs if any, that are loaded
4) Redirected copy of QFIND in verbose mode.
e.g. QFIND <nonexistent.file> /V > DUMP.FIL
This provides a list of all subdirectories.
5) Use SNAPSHOT to take a dump of the suspect disk.
6) Run CHKDSK against the failing drive.
Attempt to diagnose any bugs by unloading all TSRs and
start with as simple a system as possible.
------------
Registration
------------
Please fill out the enclosed ORDER.FRM.
Bruce Gavin
CompuServe: 70137,3244
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