Hello,
Just incase you didn't know about this Alex Haul posted this to
the list a long time ago.
1. Navigate to the Utilities menu and select "application
program".
2. At the "drive?" prompt, select "Keysoft system disk"
3. Select the Windows directory.
4. You see "command line?". Type the text in quotes, but
without the quotes:
"/k dir /s filename.ext > search.txt"
5. Now open Keyword. Select the keysoft system disk, then the
none folder. Navigate to search.txt (which can be any filename
you wanted, as long as it is a text file) and open it. You will
see a new line followed by "directory of" then a directory name
of a file. If the file is the one you wanted, follow that path.
If not keep looking through the results of your search.
NOTES:
1. To find part of a filename or files of any type, use a *.
For example:
A. You want to find all ASCII text files:
/k dir /s *.txt > search.txt
B. You want to find a file, and you know part of the filename is
"science". Use:
/k dir /s *science*.ext > search.txt
C. You know the file starts with science:
/k dir /s science*.ext > search.txt
D. You know the file's name ends with science:
/k dir /s *science.ext > search.txt
2. If anything has spaces (your search string or output file)
use quotes around the name.
file.ext is fine, but file two.ext is not; use "file two.ext".
This is also very handy if you have some sort of storage device
plugged in to the BrailleNote and want to find one file but can
not remember where it is located on the storage device.
Hope this helps!
Ethan Using BrailleNote mPower 7.5 Build 29 BT 32
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Ehrler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:38:52 -0600
Subject: [Braillenote] request for a global find command
To Humanware staff and note taker programmers:
I know this has been suggested several times over the past few
years but still not implemented. It would be very useful to have
a more or less global find command in our note takers. At a
minimum it should be able to search through all files in a folder
for a specified text string. It would be nice if one could also
limit the search with a file name mask that could use wild cards
to restrict searching to files that fit the mask, such as
"chapter??.txt" or "*.brf" and such. I would be careful about
making a global find and replace available because I have run
into too many circumstances where files I didn't intend to modify
were changed buy such a command on other devices but a global
find would be great to quickly find information lost among dozens
or hundreds of files on a specified drive or at least in a
specified folder. Any chance we could get something like this in
a future update?
Thank you
Richard Ehrler
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