To Ethan and Alex,
Thanks for this information as I missed it originally but my
actual request was intended for a global search of the contents
of multiple files where I remember saving some information but
not the file name I used when I created the file. A similar
situation comes up if I have many NLS web braille magazine files
in brf format but don't remember which issue contains an article
of interest I am looking for. Yes, I know I can open each issue
and check the table of contents but I am looking for a way to
have the note taker do the dirty work.
Thanks
Richard Ehrler
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Richard Ehrler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:41:40 -0400
Subject: re: [Braillenote] request for a global find command
You can search your entire system for file names (not text in a
file) using dos. Use the "application program" option in the
utilities menu and select your keysoft system disk, then the
windows folder. Press enter on "cmd.exe" and, when you see
"command line?", type (where [filename.ext] is your filename with
your extension; use * for wildcard):
/c dir /s [filename.ext] > search.txt
Now there will be a few seconds of slow operating while the bn
searches in the background, then a file called "search.txt" will
appear in the none folder of your keysoft system disk (you can
type in a new path and filename in place of search.txt). In This
file are the results of your search. Remember to enclose paths
and names in quotes if they contain spaces. It is nowhere near
as good as having a built-in search, but it is something.
Have a great day,
Alex
----- 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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