[arachne] Re: Can't find a file

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From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Thanks, Brian. I now have LOCATE which works very well -- it searches
> every active drive on the system! -- and FINDIT which I have yet to
> check out.

> BTW, XDIR in DR-DOS, which was recommended to me for this job, does a
> completely different function, according to DOSBOOK and also as tested
> by me.

Greg,

this is what you wrote in your original posting on this subject:

>> The usual format to execute it form the root directory in the form
>>   WHERE filename
>> when it would recurse all subdirectories and show all occurrences of
>> files of the given name. Wildcards were permitted.

>> With later versions of MS-DOS, this was replaced by the command
>>   DIR filename /S
>> for the same effect.

>> I am currently using DR-DOS which does not have a similar command.

I mentioned XDIR because I thought you were looking for a replacement
for the DIR /S command in MS-DOS. XDIR /S does exactly the same; it
finds all files matching the search pattern in all sub directories
in and below the specified dir on the same drive.

I did not know that you were looking for a tool that finds files
across all drives, otherwise I would not have recommended XDIR.
Perhaps you should tell what exactly you are looking for before
complaining that the proposed solutions do not work for you.

Regards,

Udo

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