> dir %1.*/s/p/b > " > and call it "FINDIT.BAT". > > This should work for any version of DOS 3.30 or higher, and quite possibly > earlier.
DIR /S and /B were introduced with MS-DOS 5, I believe. 3.2 and 3.3 certainly didn't support that -- you had to do ATTRIB /S. But it's not a solution to the problem we were looking at, which was 'how do you find which file will be executed when you type <whatever>'. That will show you all <whatever>s on the disk, which is no help at all. And yes, this is a problem; one of my hats is that of a Java developer, and sometimes I need the old Java (JDK 1.1.8/Swing 1.1.1) because it's all platform independent, and sometimes I need the new J2EE which contains some Jini code I believe. So when I type 'javac' to compile some code, I need to know which one's going to be used and alter my PATH if needed. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
