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- (Z)ippy Directory Listing Scan - Function Help
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- Subcommands: (text) (#) (A) (D) (N) (U) (NS)
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- (text) is the text you wish to search for
- (#) is any valid directory number
- (A) scans all directory listings for the text input
- (D) download all files found
- (N) combine the search with a date scan
- (S) with (N) indicates new files since last date scanned
- (U) scans only the upload directory(s) for the text
- (NS) displays screen output in non-stop mode
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- Description: Allows you to search the download directories for words or
- phrases either in the filename itself or in the description of
- the files. See examples below.
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- (D) will cause all files found to be flagged for later download
- the next time you issue a (D)ownload command.
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- (N) combines a new files search with the text search.
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- Examples:
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- * Z A PCBoard <enter>
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- The above command will search all of the file directories for the word
- "PCBoard" (anywhere - the filename, the description or even the extended
- description lines).
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- * Z A <enter>
- PCBoard & DESQview <enter>
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- The above commands will search all of the file directories for any file
- that has both the word "PCBoard" and the word "DESQview" in the
- description.
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- * Z PCBoard A N <enter>
- 120189 <enter>
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- The above command combines a text search for the word PCBoard with a date
- search of 12/01/89 or later in search all of the download directories.
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- * Z DESQview A S D <enter>
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- The above command combines the Zippy Search of the file directories with a
- "new files since" search and then flags all files found for later
- downloading.
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