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- FNDDUPS Shareware Version 1.5
- Copyright ⌐ 1994
-
- This is an unregistered shareware program. You may distribute this
- program as long as you include the FNDDUPS.TXT and FNDDUPS.WRI files.
-
- To register by e-mail:
- - send $5.00 in U.S. funds to the author (address below), along with
- your current e-mail address. Internet delivery requires the use of
- uuencoding, and you must be able to uudecode the file you receive.
- After uudecoding, you will have a pk-zipped file to extract.
- Compuserve delivery is done by attaching the zip file to the mail
- message I send you. You just download and unzip.
- To register by postal service (you receive a floppy disk):
- - send $10.00 in U.S. funds to the author (address still below), along
- with the size of disk you prefer. I can make high and low density
- 5.25 and 3.5 inch disks. Also include your postal address!
-
- Thanks for trying, and I hope you like it enough to register! Any
- comments or criticisms can be sent to the e-mail addresses below.
-
- - e-mail:
- yates@eggo.csee.usf.edu
- yates@undergrad.csee.usf.edu
- - CompuServe:
- 71052.2777@CompuServe.COM
- - U.S. Postal Service (snail mail):
- Jeffery A. Yates
- 3715 Cheltenham Drive
- Palm Harbor, FL USA 34684
-
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-
-
- Please note: files sent by e-mail will be 'zipped' using pkzip version
- 2.04 and uuencoded. It is the resulting text file that will actually get
- e-mailed. If you cannot decode and unzip this, either request the on-disk
- mailing, or indicate possible alternatives (the file compression can be
- skipped, but that results in a rather large text file; if you get charged
- for e-mail you might not like that option).
-
- OVERVIEW.
-
- FNDDUPS is a MS-Windows 3.x utility for locating duplicated filenames,
- on one or more disk volumes. It displays the filenames in alphabetic order,
- with file date- and time-stamps, and file size and path name. FNDDUPS also
- includes the ability to select files from the display and delete them.
- I found several other programs in cyberspace that would perform the
- same function, but they were all written in Visual Basic and therefore
- were useless if you don't have a VBRUNx.DLL. Having a personal aversion to
- interpreted languages, and no desire to hunt down an otherwise unnecessary
- DLL, I wrote this in C++.
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.
-
- If you are reading this, then you have already found the FNDDUPS.ZIP
- file and uncompressed it. You should now have three (3) new files:
- FNDDUPS.TXT (this file), FNDDUPS.WRI (this file in Microsoft Write format),
- and FNDDUPS.EXE (the executable program file). You can copy the program
- to any directory, it has no special location requirements. It does not
- generate any data files, so you only need enough free disk space to hold the
- EXE file. It does not require any special supporting files/EXEs/DLLs,
- specifically it does NOT need any version of VBRUNxx.DLL. It is a
- MS-Windows 3.x program and will need to be run within that environment.
- FNDDUPS can be run directly by either File Manager or by using the
- File...Run menu options of Program Manager, so your installation can be
- complete at this point. Or, if you wish, you can put a FNDDUPS icon in a
- Program Manager program group. To do this either drag-and-drop the
- FNDDUPS.EXE program from File Manager to a Program Manager group, or use the
- Program Manager File...New menu options. There are no command-line options
- for FNDDUPS.
- Installation is complete. Depending on how you installed, you either
- double-click the FNDDUPS icon to run the program, or use the Program Manager
- and File Manager abilities to execute programs directly. Either way,
- FNDDUPS will open a window and be ready to work.
-
- OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS.
-
- FNDDUPS main functions can be performed with either the menu or by
- clicking on the tool-bar buttons. These functions are, from left to right
- on the tool-bar: Select Drives; Start Search; Cancel Search; Delete Files;
- and About. Control Key accelerators for each File menu function are
- indicated in the programs File menu (accelerators exist for everything
- except the Help...About function).
- FNDDUPS is a program that searches one or more drives for duplicated
- filenames, and displays a list of the files it finds. The display includes
- file name, date (in year.month.day order), time, size, and path. To
- start a search, you must first tell the program which drives to look on.
- Either click the left-most tool-bar button, or choose the File...Drives menu
- option, or press <CTRL-D>. A dialog box will be displayed, showing you all
- the disk drives that FNDDUPS could locate on your system. You must pick one
- or more drives for FNDDUPS to be able to do anything. Select OK when you
- are ready.
- If at least one drive has been selected, the Search options will be
- enabled. Selecting Search (either from the tool-bar, or from the menu, or
- by using the control key combo) will set FNDDUPS to scanning the drives you
- chose. The status bar at the bottom of the window displays the drive and
- path that is currently being searched. During a search, the tool-bar and
- menu options to start a search are disable and the cancel-search button and
- menu option are enabled. If you need to stop FNDDUPS in the middle of a
- scan, click the button with the red line through it. The scan will stop,
- and any duplicates found up to that point will be displayed.
- After the scan, any duplicate filenames will be displayed. If there are enough files, scroll bars will let you move around the list. At this
- point you can use the mouse to highlight filenames (point and click). If
- any files are highlighted, the Delete options of the menu and tool-bar will
- be enabled. Clicking on this will tell FNDDUPS to remove the highlighted
- files from your system. You will be prompted to confirm the delete of each
- file. WARNING: This function _does_ remove files from you disk drive! Make
- sure you either do _not_ need the file any longer, or have a backup copy!
-
- CONCLUSION.
-
- That about covers it. This is a simple, single-purpose, stand-alone
- utility. It was developed/tested on a slightly out-of-date 20Mhz 386 with
- 8MB RAM and >4000 files. You memory requirement will depend on how big
- and full your drives are. If you find a bug, please let me know how many
- files you were trying to scan (chkdsk will tell you how many files each
- drive you selected has), how much real RAM you have, and how much virtual
- RAM you have setup in Windows.
-
- Jeffery Yates.
-