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FINDF File Finder utility Version 1.00 Released 05-29-89 Herron Software P.O. Box 1288 Battle Ground, Washington 98604 COPYRIGHT 1988, 1989 Phil Herron. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY __________________________________________ THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED AS IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE AUTHOR MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS PRODUCT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR LOSS OF PROFIT OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGE ARISING FROM EITHER THE USE OF OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT. This product should be thoroughly evaluated using backed up or noncritical data and files. _________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Section _________________________________________________________________ Shareware.................................................. 0.1.0 What it is.............................................. 0.1.1 License Terms........................................... 0.1.2 Registration............................................ 0.1.3 Evaluation................................................. 0.2.0 Evaluation Version...................................... 0.2.1 Evaluation Menu......................................... 0.2.2 Virus Prevention........................................ 0.2.3 FindF...................................................... 1.0 Introduction............................................ 1.1 Explanation............................................. 1.2 System Requirements..................................... 1.3 Installing........................................... 1.3.1 Help.................................................... 1.4 Syntax.................................................. 1.5 Wildcard Characters.................................. 1.5.1 Examples................................................ 1.6 Operating screen..................................... 1.6.1 Operating screen with output REDIRECTION............. 1.6.2 File Attributes......................................... 1.7 Applications............................................ 1.8 Version History......................................... 2.0 Support.................................................... 9.0 Problem Resolution...................................... 9.1 Before Reporting........................................ 9.2 Reporting a problem..................................... 9.3 Custom Modifications.................................... 9.4 Correspondence.......................................... 9.5 Product Catalog........................................... 10.0 _________________________________________________________________ 0.1.0 Shareware _________________________________________________________________ 0.1.1 The SHAREWARE Concept _____________________________ "Shareware" is a software distribution method which enables the potential user to obtain software at very low initial cost, for evaluation on a trial basis. You can evaluate the software in your own environment, on your own machine, with the programs and data that you normally use. You're not required to make payment and become a registered user unless the software meets your needs. Another benefit of Shareware is lower pricing. By minimizing the marketing and advertising expenses associated with more traditional software distribution methods, Shareware products can be priced lower. You don't pay for what you don't need or use. You are encouraged to share the evaluation version of this software with others, so long as you follow the limitations set forth in the LICENSE TERMS section below. 0.1.2 LICENSE TERMS _____________________ This product and its documentation are copyrighted and owned solely by the author, who reserves all rights to any benefits derived from it. It is distinctly separate from, and should not be confused with, those categories of software known as "public domain" or "freeware." You are granted without charge a limited license to use the evaluation version of this software on a trial basis, for purposes of deciding whether to continue using (and therefore whether to register) the product, and to transmit this evaluation version to associates by copying on diskette or uploading to electronic bulletin board services, so long as the following CONDITIONS are met: (a) The program and its documentation file must be distributed together. (b) The program and its documentation must not be altered in any way. If you wish to include notes for other evaluators, please add them in a separate file and include that file along with the program and documentation files. 0.1.3 REGISTRATION ____________________ When you send in the registration form and fee, you'll receive by return mail a diskette containing the latest REGISTERED version of the program and documentation. BENEFITS OF REGISTRATION The registered version WILL NOT include the Evaluation Menu front-end or the forms-printing section of this version. Thus it will be more convenient to use, from either the DOS prompt or from batch files. It will also be about 16K bytes smaller, for more efficient disk storage and faster loading. The registered version WILL include any new functions or enhancements made to date. You will receive notification of future updates and new products. You will be able to upgrade to newer versions at a reduced cost. REGISTRATION FORM The registration form and a pre-addressed mailing cover can be printed from the "Forms Printing" selection of the Evaluation menu, discussed in section 0.2.2 below. FEES The single-quantity registration fee is displayed on the initial Evaluation Menu screen. Higher quantities are discussed below. QUANTITY DISCOUNTS Each registered copy of this software will be licensed for operation at only one location (on only one machine) at any one time. If this software will be in use at more than one location at the same time, the appropriate number of registrations must be made. Multiple-quantity registration fees are displayed in the "QUANTITY DISCOUNT" section of the Evaluation menu. You can take advantage of quantity discounts by ordering multiple registrations of one program or single registrations of several different programs at the same time. You also save on shipping and handling charges by registering several products together. GROUP REGISTRATIONS You can also get quantity discounts by combining orders with associates: (1) Complete a separate registration form for each person. Each person's name, address and programs to be registered are needed for support and update notification purposes. (2) Include only one standard shipping and handling charge. Cross out the "Shipping & handling" amounts on all but one registration form; the combined order will be sent to the name and address on that form. (3) Send all the forms together in one envelope or mailing cover, with a single check or money order. _________________________________________________________________ 0.2.0 Evaluation _________________________________________________________________ 0.2.1 EVALUATION VERSION __________________________ This software contains the complete and fully functional version of the program, the latest available at the time of this release. The program itself is identical to the REGISTERED version. An Evaluation Menu and forms-printing section were added to ensure that: (a) Registration information and forms will not become separated from the program file. (b) Users who might be unfamiliar with the process of displaying a file's contents on the screen or printer will have no difficulty learning about, evaluating or registering this product. 0.2.2 EVALUATION MENU _______________________ The program is invoked from the DOS prompt by typing its name and pressing the RETURN or ENTER key. The initial screen displays the warranty section and some information about the program: Program name, Version number, Release date, Single-quantity registration fee. It next displays the Shareware Product EVALUATION MENU. A single key press will select the following functions from the menu: _________________________________________ ESC - EXIT to DOS without evaluating this program R - READ the documentation (THIS file) x - EVALUATE this program Q - QUANTITY Discount information F - FORMS printing menu - registration & mailer _________________________________________ When you press "R" to READ the documentation, this file will be shown one screen at a time. The display pauses whenever the screen becomes full, and prompts... <downArrow> or Esc The <downArrow> character is similar to the "MORE" prompt in other DOS utilities. It indicates that more is available. Press ESCape to exit back to the Evaluation Menu, or any normal typing key to continue (space bar is a convenient key to use). 0.2.3 VIRUS PREVENTION ________________________ If you'd like to evaluate this software but you're not sure where it's been, you can get a copy straight from the source for a $4.00 charge to cover the cost of the diskette, shipping and handling. If your address is outside the U.S. and Canada, add an additional $3.00 (total $7.00, in U.S. funds). Include your mailing address and the name of the program. By return mail you'll receive the latest evaluation version of that program and as many others as will fit on a 5.25 inch diskette. ______________________________________________________________ FINDF 1.0 File Finder utility ______________________________________________________________ 1.1 INTRODUCTION __________________ With the growing storage capacities of modern disk drives, you can keep more and more files online, in more and more subdirectories. With so much space available, files can be misplaced more efficiently than ever before. If your hard disk is so large that you can't keep track of which files are in which subdirectories, and you can't locate files when you need them, you need help. 1.2 EXPLANATION _________________ FindF can find those misplaced files, as long as they've been misplaced on your default drive. If they're misplaced on a diskette in a box in the back room, you're on your own. FindF's output can be redirected to a file, in case you want to keep a list of the files that get lost most often. Then again, THAT file may get misplaced. Use FindF to add it to the list. 1.3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ___________________________ PC, XT, AT or compatible. DOS version 2.1 or later. 64K free memory. 1.3.1 INSTALLING __________________ The program can be run from diskette or hard disk. No installation is necessary, other than copying the files to a drive and directory of your choosing. 1.4 HELP __________ Can't remember the command line syntax? Issue the program's name without any parameters; it will display a help screen, then return to the DOS prompt. 1.5 SYNTAX ____________ FindF [filename.ext] [/S] \ Short display format Where... Default display format is FINDF .EXE 15515 04-16-89 23:59 Short display format is FINDF .EXE 1.5.1 WILDCARD CHARACTERS ___________________________ Wildcard characters * and ? are legal for use in specifying filenames and extensions. 1.6 EXAMPLES ______________ FindF *.bat Finds all files with extension .BAT anywhere on the current drive. Displays on screen. FindF *.bat >BatFiles.Lst Same as above, but sends list to file named BatFile.Lst FindF *.bat /s Short display format to screen. FindF *.bat /s >BatFiles.Lst Short display format to file named BatFile.Lst. 1.6.1 OPERATING SCREEN ________________________ The operating screen appears whenever "FINDF" is issued from the DOS prompt with a filename; in this example, the complete command line is: FindF *.bat and the screen displays: __FindF_______________________ |______________________________| Find *.BAT on drive C: Thu 23 Mar 1989 6:49:50 PM The screen displays nothing more until a file is found that matches the input file specification. The search can be exited at any time by pressing the ESCAPE key. Upon finding a match, the drive, path and file information are displayed: C:\(ROOT directory) AUTOEXEC.BAT 27 01-28-89 14:17 The display pauses whenever the screen becomes full, and prompts... ESC-exit <downArrow>-more The <downArrow> character is similar to the "MORE" prompt in other DOS utilities. It indicates that more is available. Press ESCape to exit to DOS, or any normal typing key to continue. If not exited early, the search continues until all subdirectories on the drive have been checked and no more matching files are found. A SUMMARY line then reports the number of files found, and the number of directories in which they were found. If you pressed the ESCAPE key at any point during the run, the summary section also displays "Early termination" to indicate that the files shown on screen or in the redirected file may not be a complete list. If the output was redirected to a file, this summary section is also written to that file, rather than to the screen. 1.6.2 OPERATING SCREEN with output REDIRECTION ________________________________________________ FINDF's output can be redirected to a file by using the DOS redirection characters > or >>... > Sends output to specified file; overwrites the file if it already exists. >> Appends output to the end of the specified file. You could use each in turn to generate a file containing a list of all the executable files on your default drive: FindF *.Com > RunFiles.Lst FindF *.Exe >>RunFiles.Lst During redirected operation, the screen displays only the standard header and, at the bottom, the ESCape prompt: __FindF_______________________ |______________________________| ESC-exit 1.7 FILE ATTRIBUTES _____________________ FindF will find all files with Ordinary, Archive, ReadOnly, Hidden and System attributes. Files with Directory or Volume label attributes are ignored. 1.8 APPLICATIONS __________________ A sample application is shown below. FindAll.Bat can be used to generate a listing of all files and subdirectories on the default drive. To maintain an overview of your hard disk's contents and directory structure in case of drive problems, run FindAll periodically and save the output on a backup diskette. Command-line syntax: FindAll [outputFileSpec] Usage: FindAll A:allFiles.Lst will write all information to a file named AllFiles.Lst on drive A. Listing of FindAll.Bat: :::: File & Subdir listing utility echo off If "%1"=="" goto NoSpec echo Writing Tree diagram & Directory to %1 - Standby . . . echo ---------- Tree Diagram & Directory ---------- >%1 Vol >>%1 echo . >>%1 :::: next line: use Ptree.Com, Vtree.Com, or comment out with colons Ptree >>%1 echo . >>%1 FindF *.* >>%1 echo ----- %1 Completed ----- goto END :NoSpec echo Syntax: %0 [outputFileSpec] echo Writes tree-structure diagram and complete directory of default echo drive to specified file. Uses FindF & Ptree/Vtree utilities. :END Notes: 1 - There are several ways to convert the above listing into batch file form. One is to copy this entire file to another named "FindAll.Bat", delete everything except the listing, then delete the leading spaces on the left side so each line begins in column one. Another is to display the listing on screen and use a memory-resident notepad to "cut and paste" it into a batch file. 2 - Several statements in the batch file listing are intended to insert a blank line into the output file: echo . >>%1 A dot is used here for ease of converting the listing text into batch file form. Once the listing is in a batch file, each occurrence of the dot can be replaced by a blank character, ASCII 255 decimal. This character is entered by holding down the <alt> key and entering the decimal number 255 on the numeric key pad. 3 - Vtree.Com is a PC Magazine utility. Ptree.Com is a version of Vtree.Com that uses only standard ASCII characters, for ease of printing. 4 - Multiple colons in the listing are used for comment lines. 2.0 VERSION HISTORY _____________________ 1.00 Initial release. _________________________________________________________________ 9.0 Support _________________________________________________________________ 9.1 PROBLEM RESOLUTION ________________________ Please document and report any anomaly in program operation, whether it's a genuine "bug" or just some feature of the program that particularly "bugs" you. If you're the first person to document and report a problem that we agree needs attention, you'll receive a free upgrade with the correction when it's been made. If you're a registered user, you'll get the upgraded registered version; if you haven't yet registered, you'll get the upgraded evaluation version. 9.2 BEFORE REPORTING ______________________ Things to try prior to reporting a problem: 1 - Reread the documentation to make sure you understand what we thought we understood when we wrote it. 2 - If the system reports "Bad command or file name" when you attempt to run the program, its executable file (or at least the file name you specified) was not found. First, make sure no typos or misspellings have crept into your command line; next, try changing your PATH setting, or make the drive & directory where the program resides the "current" drive & directory. 3 - If the program is being run from a batch file, try deleting lines previous to the line that actually invokes the program, to see if some prior activity is causing the problem. 4 - If you have any memory-resident or "TSR" utilities installed (pop-up calculators/note pads, keyboard enhancements, etc.), try removing them from memory and running the program again to see if the problem reoccurs. 9.3 REPORTING A PROBLEM _________________________ If the problem persists, please document it as completely and accurately as possible; we have to be able to duplicate it before we can begin to resolve it. Include at least the following: 1 - Version of DOS you are using. 2 - Machine type, drives, memory, etc. 3 - Programs executed prior to the problem. 4 - Problem program's name and version number. 5 - Where and how you obtained the problem program. 6 - Address and/or phone number where you can be contacted. 7 - Anything you can think of that might relate to the problem; for example, listings of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, or any batch files used to run the program. 8 - Any relevant printouts. NOTE: If you're a registered user, you'll find the utility UserResp.Exe on the distribution diskette; it can be used to print a pre-addressed mailer and a problem report. If you have not yet registered, send problem reports to the address below (or print the pre-addressed mailer from the Evaluation Menu). 9.4 CUSTOM MODIFICATIONS __________________________ If you need custom modifications to this software for your particular application, please write to the below address with complete details of your requirements. 9.5 CORRESPONDENCE ____________________ We welcome any comments or suggestions you might have concerning improvements and future enhancements to this product. Send all correspondence to: Phil Herron P.O. Box 1288 Battle Ground, Washington USA 98604 _________________________________________________________________ 10.0 Product Catalog _________________________________________________________________ This section contains a list of products available or near completion as of this release date; it will be updated whenever new products are added. ChkD - Drive Total/Free/Used report by value & percent ChkM - Memory Total/Free/Used report by value & percent CleanOut - Selective file deletion, with confirmation CleanTxt - WordStar to Ascii convert, ctrl char strip, tab expand CleanZ - Ctrl-Z End Of File char strip or replace FindF - Find File(s) in any directory of current drive Gen - Generate files for testing printer, storage or timing KeySet - CapsLock-NumLock-ScrollLock-PrtSc key setup PrinTest - Parallel Printer Test & Status reporting Qscn - Convert text to executable file for Quick Screen display. ScanF - Scan File for text strings ScanM - Scan Memory for text strings Split - File splitter StoRm - STorage RooM needed for files on any disk/any DOS ver. _______________________________________________________________ | | | COPYRIGHT 1989 Phil Herron. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. | |_______________________________________________________________|