On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:00:31 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:

> 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.

To search for filenames in subdirectories with DR-DOS you can use XDIR.EXE,
as in "xdir arach*.* /s".

All the best,

Sam Heywood

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