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- Documentation for WHEREIR.COM
-
- History:
-
- This is a revised version of the popular WHEREIS.COM program. The
- revision causes the screen to stop scrolling after displaying 23 lines
- and to prompt for more. Depressing any key will resume scrolling for
- 23 more lines. The revision was designed by John Tuccio of Westport,
- Conn. and implemented by Ted Eyrick of San Antonio, Tx. The original
- author is unknown.
-
- ** IMPORTANT **
-
- Before using WHEREIR.COM it should be renamed to WHEREIS.COM by using
- the following command:
-
- REN WHEREIR.COM WHEREIS.COM <enter>
-
- where <enter> means to press the Enter key
-
-
- Documentation for the WHEREIS command
-
-
- Purpose: Searches for specified file(s) through all DOS
- 2.0 directories, listing matching files with their
- appropriate directories and sub-directories.
-
- Format: WHEREIS [filename[.ext]]
-
- Type: External
-
- "Softalk for the IBM Personal Computer" by John
- Socha. It will work correctly on the volume on
- which it is resident. It does not automatically
- cross over onto other volumes. (Note the absence
- of an optional volume label in the format
- description. The following examples demonstrate
- proper usage:
-
-
- WHEREIS myfile.txt <enter>
-
- WHEREIS myfile.* <enter>
-
- WHEREIS *.bas <enter>
-
- WHEREIS *.* <enter>
-
- WHEREIS is an MSDOS 2.00 generic utility that searches all
- subdirectories for matching file names. This is very useful, and saves
- a lot of hair pulling when you know the file is somewhere ...
-
- Run it by:
-
- WHEREIS <filespec>
-
- <filespec> can contain wildcards. No matter what the current
- directory is, WHEREIS will search the entire disk, and list the
- directory(s) where the file resides.
-
-