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- WhereIs Version 4.4a, released Dec 18, 1990 is a PC-DOS / MS-DOS File
- Finder written by Keith Ledbetter of Chesterfield, VA.
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- WhereIs helps hard drive owners retain some sanity by locating files on their
- hard drives. We've all had situations where we KNOW we have a file in a
- directory somewhere on the hard drive...we just can't remember where.
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- Another added feature of WhereIs is that it can be told to look inside of
- archived (ARC) files during its search. This is a very important feature
- with the common acceptance of archived files these days. In this document,
- "ARC files" is used as a generic term for any file with the following
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- .ARC .ZIP .LZH .ZOO .PAK .PKA
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- You will find that WhereIs can satisfy almost all of your file searching
- needs. It has a multitude of search options:
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- o The ability to search inside ARC, ZIP, PKA, PAK, ZOO, and LZH archived
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- o The ability to search for files that have been compressed with PK-Ware's
- PKLite program.
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- o True regular expression searching on filenames.
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- o The ability to display duplicate entries across all of your disk drives
- (even those duplicates that are in the archive files mentioned above!).
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- o Up to 25 filenames can be excluded from the search.
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- o Built-in ZIP archive error detection. Every time you do a search that
- includes ZIP files, every ZIP file on your hard drive is checked for
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- o The ability to do restrictive searches on such criteria as file dates and
- file sizes.
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- o The ability to do a verified (or un-verified) deletion of any files found
- in the search (great for periodically deleting those .BAK files or files
- with a size of zero).
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- o Support for Novell's "volume" configurations.
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- o Default switches can be set in an environment variable.
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- Other advanced features of WhereIs include (a) grep-type searching on
- filenames (ie: find filenames with a '4' in the fifth character), (b) date
- and time range specifiers, and (c) file size range specifiers. There are
- many switches for WhereIs, and it is highly recommended that you read this
- document carefully so that you will be able to get the most out of the
- program. There are very few things you can't do with WhereIs when it comes
- to locating files. As an advanced example:
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- whereis cde:*.bak "[0-9]" -gt1024 -lt2048 -s12-10-89 -b12-20-89 -v
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- How about <THAT> for a command line? What this would do is delete all .BAK
- files on drives C:, D:, and E: that have a number somewhere in the filename
- (ie: PROG01.BAK). But, only if the file is between 1025 and 2047 bytes in
- length, and was last modified sometime between the dates of 12-10-89 and
- 12-19-89.
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- Yes, I know that you'll probably never need to do something exotic as this,
- but it shows the power that you have with WhereIs. Take the time to learn
- WhereIs, you'll be glad you did....
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