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- FFG Compared to Other File Finders
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- File Finder/Grouper (FFG) performs functions similar to
- those found in other utility programs, but here are some FFG
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- 1. FFG uses the DOS wildcard characters '*' and '?' but
- they have extended function over the DOS counterparts.
- The extended functionality permits you to search for
- strings of characters that appear anywhere in the file
- name.
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- 2. FFG can search for multiple file specifications in a
- single pass, such as find all BAT, COM and EXE files.
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- 3. FFG permits you to concisely specify multiple file name
- search masks such as:
- "*[ZIP,ARC,ARJ,LHA,ZOO]*.[COM,EXE]"
- to find all archiving programs.
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- 4. FFG can search all disk drives or selected disk drives.
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- 5. FFG can search inside of archive files (ZIP, ARC, ARJ,
- LZH, ZOO). FFG will also search inside PKZip, ARJ, and
- LHA self-extracting (.EXE) archive files. (FFG also
- searches inside XEQ COM library files).
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- 6. FFG can execute and arbitrary DOS command for each file
- found with or without a user confirmation before
- execution.
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- 7. FFG finds hidden files and searches hidden directories.
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- 8. FFG searches inside directories with name extensions
- (e.g., THISISMY.DIR). Some file finders do not search
- these directories.
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- 9. FFG can move to the disk and directory of the found
- file (/g option).
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- 10. FFG can search for directories instead of files simply
- by appending a backslash '\' to the search name.
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- 11. FFG can search by a date range, time range, size range,
- or day-of-week range using intuitive syntax to specify
- these filtering criteria. Multiple include/exclude
- ranges can be specified.
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- 12. FFG can search by the file attributes or combination of
- attributes, such as finding all Hidden Read-Only files.
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- 13. FFG can find files based on the day of the week (i.e.,
- Sun - Sat) they were modified/created.
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- 14. FFG can find files based on whether or not the file
- contains one or more text/ASCII-code strings. FFG will
- even search for text inside files that are archived if
- you have the associated archive extraction program
- (e.g., PKUnzip, LHA, ARJ, etc.) on your DOS search
- path.
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- 15. FFG permits you to exclude certain files base on name,
- date, time, size, attributes, day-of-week criteria,
- text contents.
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- 16. FFG can search for files by date relative to today,
- such as all files modified/created 7 to 14 days ago.
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- 17. FFG can search for files relative to the current time
- of day, such as all files modified/created within the
- last ten minutes.
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- 18. The asterisk '*' can be used as a wildcard in date and
- time criteria, such as /d9/*/93 for all September 1993
- files and /t13:* for all 1:00pm - 1:59pm files.
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- 19. Current month (M), day (D), year (Y) can be specified
- in date criteria such as 1/1/Y-6/30/Y, M/D/Y (today)
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- 20. Current hours (H), minutes (M), seconds (S) can be
- specified in time criteria such as H:M:S (now).
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- 21. Partial dates and times are interpreted, such as 9/93 -
- > 9/*/93, 5/1 -> 5/1/Y (Y = current year), 92-93 -> all
- 1992-1993 files, 9 -> 9:00:00am.
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- 22. Multiple date, time, size, day-of-week, attribute, text
- filtering criteria can be specified, which are combined
- in a logical AND or OR depending on how they are
- specified.
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- 23. FFG lets you pause (press any key) or interrupt (press
- <ESC>) the search operation at any time.
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- 24. FFG lets you guide the search by using the arrow keys
- to skip files and directories.
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- 25. FFG can be used to produce database files of its output
- (ASCII comma-delimited files)(/f, option)
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- 26. FFG provides useful default output format options but
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- permits extensive user customization of the output
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- 27. FFG can be used to produce output as DOS batch files
- (.BAT) with DOS replaceable parameters (%1 through %9).
- The batch file can then be used to execute an arbitrary
- set of commands against the group of files such as
- copy, back up, archive, delete, move, edit...). The
- power and flexibility of this feature is limited only
- by your imagination. Although some other finders have
- similar capability, they do not have the same
- flexibility.
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- 28. By default, when FFG is searching all disk drives
- (i.e., *: is specified), it skips disk drives that are
- logical aliases of subtrees of physical drives that
- will also be searched. This avoids reports of multiple
- copies of the same physical file when it appears also
- on logical alias drives.
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- 29. FFG lets you use 43- and 50-line video modes on EGA/VGA
- systems so you can see more on the screen.
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- 30. Frequently used options can be made semi-permanent by
- setting them in the DOS environment variable FFGOPT
- using the DOS 'set' command as in: SET FFGOPT=/p /v5 /z
- /bpd /fp
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