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NAME: FFIND.EXE (a smart file-finder).
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: Turbo Pascal 5.0.
VERSION: 1.4, of August 31st 1990.
AUTHOR: Charles Vachon
353 des frenes est #1
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
G1L 1S2
USE: As it's name implies, this program is a file finder. What's so
special about FFIND is that it does not automatically search for
files beginning from the root directory of a drive. Instead, the
search is conducted ONLY FROM THE DEFAULT or SPECIFIED DIRECTORY.
The idea of this came to me after trying Norton's FF on a 330 Mb
Novell network drive to find that it could take several minutes
to locate a given file. If you have even only a vague idea of
where the file you want is, this program will be MUCH FASTER at
finding it than anything else you could try. Furthermore,
execution can be stopped at any moment (for example, after FFIND
has located the desired file) by pressing Escape.
COMMANDS: FFIND accepts commands by the DOS command line. The following
parameters are allowed (in any order and case), all other are
ignored:
- the file specification of the file(s) to find. "*" and "?" can
be used to construct a generic file specification. Here are 2
examples:
FFIND Without parameters, FFIND will look for ALL
files (*.*) on the default drive and
directory, and also in all directories
under the default one.
FFIND d:\*.txt FFIND will look on drive D: from the root
directory for all files with a TXT
extension.
- the /A option is used to restrict file-finding ONLY to files
whose archive bit is ON (A+). DOS' BACKUP and most BACKUP
utilities reset this bit to A- upon backing up a file.
- the /I option adds to the basic display the following
informations: file attributes, size, and last modification
time.
- the /F option changes the display of the file names so that
these appear in their fully qualified form. By default (/F not
specified), a directory name appears alone, with file names
belonging to that directory under it. For example, the display
could be:
D:\ARC\
UTILS.ZIP
TURBOSLS.EXE
The /F option leads to the following equivalent display:
D:\ARC\UTILS.ZIP
D:\ARC\TURBOSLS.EXE
Note that /F and /I options cannot be used together. When both
are specified, files will be listed /f-style, but without any
extended information.
- the /? option does nothing but displays a copyright notice and
syntax summary.
DISTRIBUTION: This utility is distributed under the shareware concept.
If after a 30 days evaluation period you wish to continue using
FFIND, please encourage it's author by sending a modest $2
contribution. Also, I ask you to only distribute FFIND in it's
complete form, comprised in FFIND14E.ZIP.
WARRANTY: In no event shall the author be liable for any loss of profit
or any other damage associated with the use of this program.
HISTORY:
v1.3 (90.08.04): First distributed version.
v1.4 (90.08.31): Corrects a bug which scrambled output when
redirection to other device than CRT was achieved.