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- Changes and additions for LF 3.4
-
- - Older and newer work together now. For example, if you give both an
- older=X and a newer=Y command you will get files that are both older
- then X and newer then Y. If Y<X you will find nothing.
-
- - The BIGGER and SMALLER commands have been added. They will limit the
- search criteria to files BIGGER or SMALLER then a certain number of
- bytes. These commands will work together with each other like the Older
- and Newer commands. You may also mix bigger/smaller/older/newer together.
-
- - The word FOUND: no longer appears before each found file.
-
- Changes and additions for LF 3.3
-
- - Because of a problem with DOS 5 and/or 4DOS 4.0, the token that get
- replaced with the file name has been changed from "%s" to "#file".
-
- - If the directory structure got particularly deep, LF would get stop
- searching sub-directorys. I was fairly certain that it was a
- DOS/Novell problem and not a problem with LF. I tried several other
- file finder utilities and they blew up on the same test case, so it
- must be DOS/Novell problems. LF now uses an alogrithm that is a little
- slower (LF takes care of a few things that it would normally let DOS
- handle) that will catch everything. The speed difference is only
- slight. Since 3.3 uses the newer optimizations that are available
- with Borland C++ 3.0, this version of LF is actually faster then 3.2.
-
-
- Changes and additions for LF 3.2
-
- - The OLDer and NEWer commands have now been added. /OLDer=X will find
- files that are X days old or older. /NEWer=X will find files that are
- X days old or newer. Both commands can be shortened to just the
- letters in caps (/NEW or /OLD).
-
- In the case that both /NEW and /OLD are given on the command line,
- /NEW will take precedence.
-
- - LF will can now be told to search down only a specified path. This
- can speed things up if you know the file(s) you what are under a
- certain sub-dir. This feature is activated if you type a path name
- instead of just a filespec.
-
- - The current drive (/c) option was added. This option tells LF to search
- only the current DOS drive for the specified files.
-
- - The interactive option (/i) also controls the pausing of files if
- there is no command string. This means that if LF is run with the
- interactive switch, the display will pause after each full screen.
-
- - In addition to the skip option (pressing S at the prompt) there is now
- a continuous option. Pressing C at the prompt will switch LF over to
- non-interactive mode.
-
- - Pressing ? at the prompt will now issue a one line help message.
-
- - A few internal changes have been made that make the .EXE file a little
- smaller. LF should also run a little faster.
-
- - The documentation is now "New and improved!"
-
- Changes and additions for LF 3.1
-
- - The default parameters can now be written to disk with the /w option.
-
- - Since the /w option is now available, the /n (network) option is gone.
- You may now accomplish the same thing by writing the proper start and
- end drive to the .EXE.
-
- - The procedures to parse the command line are totally new, so now the
- options can appear anywhere on the command line. Also, when using an
- option that has a value associated with it, you now must use '='
- instead of a space. (/s e becomes /s=e)
-
- - Since you may now make the interactive option (/i) permanent, an
- option for non-interactive has been added. This is /y.
-
- - When the interactive option prompts you, you may now press S to skip
- processing the current directory and move on to the next dir.
-