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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Re: Port of unix 'find' on OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.203205.8104@netcom.com>
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- References: <hatton.720779901@cgl.ucsf.edu> <1dcjruINNkeu@travis.csd.harris.com> <sens.3.721028065@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov6.142518.10897@rcvie.co.at> <1992Nov6.234042.19189@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:32:05 GMT
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- In <1992Nov6.234042.19189@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
-
- >For those of you who would rather just buy the program, MKS sells a
- >toolkit that contains a complete wuite of unix utilities (including
- >the desired 'find' program) for both dos and os/2.
-
- True, and, while I only own the DOS version of their package (and an
- older one at that), I have to say that their stuff is, for the most
- part, excellent. Nay, outstanding! If only their upgrades weren't
- quite so pricey. :-(
-
- It's also worth mentioning that the CMD.EXE replacement 4OS2.EXE has a
- built-in command GLOBAL which can substitute for `find' in many cases,
- and will probably operate much faster. (At least the 4DOS GLOBAL
- command is much faster than the MKS-DOS `find' command.)
-
- 4OS2 can also be used to identify the type of executable files,
- something which `file' (MKS or GNU) has problems with (as mentioned in
- another thread).
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