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- HOW TO USE FDA.COM
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- This program FDA.COM for FinDAll, is very helpful not only for
- locating particular files like WHEREIS.COM, but also for finding
- all the directories where such files resided and displaying the
- path, size, date and time of every matching file it finds.
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- The author of this utility program is E. J. Muth. The BASIC
- source codes for FDA.COM appeared in the February 25, 1986
- issue of PC Magazine, Volume 5, Number 4.
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- USING FDA.COM
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- First thing you do is run FDA.BAS. This program will create
- FDA.COM, which will search across subdirectories of both hard
- disks and floppies for any files and report the path, size, date,
- and time of any file it finds. When you run FDA.BAS, you will be
- ask for which drives you will be wanting FDA.COM to search. Your
- choices are A, B, and C drives. So you could have one FDA.COM
- for each drive, for any two, or for all three drives, BUT be sure
- and rename the files so that you know which one is for what
- drive(s).
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- Next, after you have created the FDA.COM files ( and know what
- drive(s) it is for), you are ready to find those files of yours.
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- FDA.COM uses the following syntax: FDA filespec
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- Use FDA.COM in DOS with wildcard filespecs. For example, to find
- every files that begins with the letters PC, type FDA PC*.*. For
- every .DOC files, type FDA *.DOC and you might get the following:
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- 60627 2-11-86 0:41 C:\ARC\ARC.DOC
- 1896 8-02-83 16:36 C:\SCREEN\BLANK.DOC
- 2076 10-22-86 13:22 C:\SCREEN\SCRN.DOC
- 2759 6-18-86 12:44 A:\NOTES.DOC
- 5894 11-03-85 4:55 B:\REPORTS.DOC
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- To get the complete story, see the article, which starts on page
- 249 of the above mentioned issue of PC Magazine.
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- To print this file, set the printer to the top of the page and
- enter the following command:
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- A>copy FDA.DOC prn
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