[arachne] Re: Can't find a file

  • From: "Ron Clarke" <ariadne@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:56:52 +1000

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Hi Folks,

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:41:38 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> Many, many years ago, I had a little utility called WHERE.COM or
> WHERE.EXE that I could use to find all occurences of a file with a
> particular name.

> 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.

> Does anyone know of a utility that will do this function for me?

  I have a couple ported from Linux.

  You also might like to look at: 
http://au.geocities.com/short_stop_pacific/freesoft/filutil3.htm

Regards,
        Ron



Ron Clarke
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