Gil Parrish wrote:
>>... if you want to search your whole harddrive for a filename
starting with "arach", you can go to the C: directory and give the command--
dir arach*.* /s -- which would search not only the C: directory but the
/subdirectories as well. That doesn't work under DR-DOS; the file isn't
pulled up with that command unless it happens to be in the current
directory. By the time you realize you're not finding files in
subdirectories because you're giving the wrong command, go into the help
function, find the right command (something like-- tree arach*.* --as I
recall), and re-do the search, you've wasted a lot of time. And when you
next want to search for a file, you'll forget all that, give the DOS 6.22
command, and go through the whole process again.<<
I use a program, "whereis.com" that will search all logical drives for
filenames, using the syntax,
whereis <filename.ext> c k
to search drives c thru k. (Note, drive colons NOT used). Wildcards (*, ?)
can be used. Without the drive letters, it will search the current drive
*including* subdirectories. A lot better than using the DIR command.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
