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SST: the Supersonic Search Tool v5.3a Released July 2, 1991 A PC-DOS / MS-DOS Fast File Finder _______ ____|__ | (tm) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER Written by Keith Ledbetter 4240 Ketcham Drive Chesterfield, VA 23832 (804) 674-0780 (6:00pm - 10:00pm Eastern Time) Tech Support BBS: Blue Ridge Express 804-790-1675 30 Phone Lines (2400 bd) Sub-board KEITHL ("J KEITHL") Electronic mail on GEnie: ORION.MICRO CompuServe: 72240,1221 BIX: kledbetter Program and Documentation are Copyright (c) 1988-1991 by Keith Ledbetter. All rights reserved. Portions Copyright Borland, International. SST is written in Borland C++. This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. SST Registration Form Keith Ledbetter 4240 Ketcham Drive Chesterfield, VA 23832 SST Version 5.3a Quantity Price Disk with branding utility ($15/copy): _______ __________ Total enclosed __________ Please make payment by check or money order (in US funds) payable to "Keith Ledbetter". Please specify the diskette size(s) that are acceptable for you: ___ 5.25" 1.2MB ___ 3.5" 1.44MB ___ 5.25" 360KB ___ 3.50" 720KB Name ________________________________________________________ Company ________________________________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Phone ________________________________________________________ Where did you get SST? ____________________________________ Multi-System and Reseller Licenses: Site, corporate, network, and reseller licenses are available for SST. Check the line on the order form or contact me for more information. The following schedule provides some examples of multi-system license fees. The fee includes one master diskette which you may then copy and use on the number of machines listed below: # Users Price ------- ------- 5 $ 70.00 ($14 / copy) 10 130.00 ($13 / copy) 25 300.00 ($12 / copy) 50 550.00 ($11 / copy) 100 1,000.00 ($10 / copy) Unlimited 1,500.00 Supersonic Search Tool Page 1 Definition of ShareWare Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it. Supersonic Search Tool Page 2 Disclaimer - Agreement Users of SST must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "SST is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse- quential, which may result from the use of SST." SST is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using SST and continue to use SST after a reasonable trial period, you must make a reg- istration payment of $15 to Keith Ledbetter. The $15 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of SST must register and pay for their copies of SST within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by con- tacting Keith Ledbetter. You are encouraged to pass a copy of SST along to your friends for evaluation. One easy way to do this is by placing SST on your favorite Bulletin Board System. Please encourage users to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the SST program. Supersonic Search Tool Page 3 Introduction Note: For a list of new features in this version, see the file HISTORY.DOC. Thank you for taking the time to try out SST v5.3a. You will find that SST can satisfy almost all of your file searching needs. It has a multitude of search options, some of which are: o The ability to search inside ARC, ZIP, PKA, PAK, ZOO, ARJ, and LZH archived files. o The ability to search for files that have been compressed with PK-Ware's PKLite program. o True regular expression searching on filenames. o The ability to display duplicate entries across all of your disk drives (even those duplicates that are in the archive files mentioned above!). o Up to 25 filenames can be excluded from the search. 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 integrity! o The ability to do restrictive searches on such criteria as file dates and file sizes. 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). o Support for Novell's "volume" configurations. o Default switches can be set in an environment variable. Don't be fooled by imitations. There are recent file finder programs out there making claims that their "features" are "never before found in any file finder programs". Funny! Their "features" (like date-range searching and filesize searching) have been in our program a YEAR before they were even released! Now, here is the only pitch that you'll see in this document for some of your hard-earned money. SST is being distributed as a Shareware product. If you find that you are still using this program a couple of weeks after you get it, please take the time to fill out the registration form at the front of this documentation file and send in your registration fee of $15. Supersonic Search Tool Page 4 Introduction When you send in your registration fee, you will receive a disk with the most recent version of SST, along with a BRAND utility that you can use to place your name and serial number into ALL FUTURE VERSIONS of SST. No future upgrade costs; you pay only one time! You will also receive unlimited telephone support for the program. Registered SST users may call me at (804) 674-0780 between the hours of 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (Eastern) Monday-Friday, and from 10 am - 6 pm on the weekends. Thank you for supporting SST and my other Shareware programs! Supersonic Search Tool Page 5 What SST Does SST helps hard drive owners retain (some of) their sanity by locating files on their hard drives. We've all had situations where we KNOW that a file is somewhere on the hard drive; we just can't remember where. Another added feature of SST is that it can be told to look inside of archive files, too. This is a very important feature with the common acceptance of archived files these days. In this document, "archive files" is used as a generic term for any file with the following extension: .ARC .ARJ .ZIP .LZH .ZOO .PAK .PKA Other advanced features of SST include (a) grep-type searching on filenames (eg: 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 SST, 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 SST when it comes to locating files. As an advanced example: SST cde:*.bak "[0-9]" -gt1024 -lt2048 -s12-10-89 -b12-20-89 -v 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 (eg: 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. Yes, I know that you'll probably never need to do something exotic as this, but it shows the power that you have with SST. Take the time to learn SST, and it will always be your friend. Supersonic Search Tool Page 6 The Command Line Interface Invoking SST is simplicity itself. If you do not specify a path, then SST will search the entire default drive. If you specify a starting path, then the search will occur from that path downward (only). Here are some basic command line examples: SST ab*.c search entire default drive for any filename matching "ab*.c". SST \turboc\ab*.c search downward from the \turboc\ directory on the default drive looking for "ab*.c". SST d:*.dat -a search entire drive d: and all archive files on drive d: looking for "*.dat". SST cd:*.dat -a search entire drive c: and drive d: and all archive files looking for "*.dat". SST myprog search entire default drive looking for "myprog.*" (SST will append a ".*" to a filename with no extension specified). SST myprog. search entire default drive looking for "myprog". If you specify a "." after a filename, SST will not append an "*" to it. Supersonic Search Tool Page 7 Command Line Switches Switch: -A Meaning: search all archive files Description: The '-a' switch tells SST to look in any archive file encountered for a matching filename. If a matching filename is found, it will be displayed in parenthesis along with the full name of the archive file it resides in. Switch: -AO Meaning: search -ONLY- archive files Description: The '-ao' switch tells SST to ONLY look in any archive file encountered for a matching filename. If a matching filename is found, it will be displayed in parenthesis along with the full name of the archive file it resides in. Switch: -ARC -ARJ -PKA -LZH -ZIP -ZOO Meaning: search only the archive formats specified Description: These switches tell SST to only look inside the specified types of archive files for a matching filename. For example, if you are sure that the file named MYPROG.EXE is somewhere on drive C: in a .ZIP file, then SST c:myprog.exe -zip would find the file. Specifying individual archive format switches slightly speeds up SST, because the program doesn't have to waste time searching for (and through) all six archive formats. Switch: "regular expression" Meaning: do a grep-type search on the filename Description: Any command line string enclosed within double quotes will be considered a regular expression, and will cause SST to go into its "grep mode". A regular expression can be used with or without a filename search mask. As of version 4.1a, when you specify a regular expression, SST will also look inside of 4DOS description files for the string specified. If a match is found, the normal output line will be displayed, along with the actual 4DOS description line below the filename line. Special characters within the quoted string are as follows: ^ - start matching at the first of the filename ? - match any character in this position [..] - range check on character at this position Supersonic Search Tool Page 8 Command Line Switches The easiest way to explain is with a few examples: SST *.bat the regular search; will display any .BAT file found. SST *.bat "42" will display any .BAT file that contains the characters "42" anywhere in the filename. SST *.bat "^???42" will display any .BAT file that contains the characters "42" in the fourth position of the filename. SST "[0-9]" will display any file that contains a number anywhere in the filename. SST "[^0-9]" will display any file that DOES NOT contain a number anywhere in the filename. SST "^???a?[acew-z]" will display any file that contains an 'a' in the fourth position of the filename and the letters 'a', 'c', 'e', 'w', 'x', 'y', or 'z' in the sixth position of the name. These grep masks also work when looking inside of archive files. Switch: -C"command to execute" -CV"command to execute" -O"command to display" Meaning: Execute (or display) a DOS command on all files found. Description: This switch tells SST to execute the command within the double quotes on each matching file found. When doing this command, you have access to replaceable parameters to get to the full filename, the pathname only, the filename only, and the name of the archive member (if you're searching archives). When you use the -cv switch, it operates identically to the -c switch, except that SST will ask you for confirmation Supersonic Search Tool Page 9 Command Line Switches before it actually executes the command. The only difference between the -o and the -c switches is that -c actually executes the command whereas -o prints the command it WOULD have executed to the screen. Because of this, the -o command can be invaluable. First, you can use it before doing the -c command to make sure that what you think you told SST to do is the same as what you DID tell it to do. In other words, if you're about to do a command that could have side effects (such as deleting files), it would be good to do the -o command first and look at what SST actually will do when you execute the -c command. The second use of the -o command is to redirect all of the command lines into a batch file that you can execute later. Replacement parameters for both -c and -o are as follows: Parm Desc Normal example Archive example ---- ---- ----------------- ----------------- &f full file name c:\dos\xcopy.exe c:\dos\comlib.zip &p path name only c:\dos\ c:\dos\ &d directory name c:\dos c:\dos &n file name only xcopy.exe comlib.zip &m archive member <blank> xcopy.exe &r root of the name xcopy xcopy && the '&' char A few examples would probably be the best way to explain this concept. Let's do a few "real-world" examples here. 1) You have many .DOC files straying all over your hard drive, and you'd like to incorporate them all into one simple ZIP file. You could do this with the following command: C:> SST -d *.doc -c"pkzip -m c:\docs.zip &f" 2) You want to make a copy of all of your Pascal source code that has been changed today so that you can take it home with you: C:> SST -d *.pas -s0 -c"copy &f a:\" 3) You want to get a text file listing of every directory name on your hard drive(s) in the file HARDRIVE.DAT: C:> SST -d nul -o"&p" >c:\Hardrive.Dat 4) You want to delete every .BAK file on your system (even those that are in ZIP files). This would be a 2-step process: First, delete the normal .BAK files C:> SST *.bak -v -n Supersonic Search Tool Page 10 Command Line Switches Then, delete them from the archive files C:> SST -d -ao -zip *.bak -c"pkzip -d &f &m" Switch: -D Meaning: search all available hard drives. Description: This switch tells SST to search every hard drive on your system (including network drives), starting with C:. In other words, if you have drives C:, D:, E:, and F: then the following two command lines would do the exact same thing: SST cdef:myprog.exe or SST myprog.exe -d Note that specifying the "-d" switch overrides any drive letters that you specify on the command line. Switch: -DIR Meaning: include directory names in the search. Description: This switch tells SST to also include directory names in the search. This allows you to not only locate a lost file, but lost directories, too. Switch: -DUP Meaning: Display only duplicate filenames on the drives searched. Description: If the -DUP switch is specified, only those files that have duplicate entries will be displayed. All other switches are active during -DUPlicate processing. For example, the following command line: SST *.bat -a -d -dup would cause SST to search all hard drives (-d) looking for duplicate .BAT files. SST would also look inside of all found Archive files (-a). Switch: -E Meaning: use "*.*" for subdirectory searches Description: By default, SST assumes that you don't have any directories on your hard drive that have extensions in the filename. So, when SST is looking for new directories, it will search with a filemask of "*.". This significantly speeds up the hard drive search. If you do have directories that have extensions in their names, you must specify the '-e' switch or SST -will not- find files within that subdirectory. The easiest thing to do is to set your SST environment variable to default to this Supersonic Search Tool Page 11 Command Line Switches option (see "The SST Environment Variable" below). Switch: -F Meaning: display filenames only Description: This switch causes SST to display only the filename of matching files that it finds. No header or footer information will be displayed. This is most useful when you are redirecting the output from SST to a file. Switch: -G or -GF Meaning: go to the drive and subdirectory of the found file Description: If you specify the '-g' switch, SST will prompt you with Goto this subdirectory? (Y/N/Q) _ whenever it finds a matching file. Press 'Y' to change to the drive and subdirectory displayed, or 'N' to continue searching the drive. You may also enter 'Q' to abort SST. If you specify the '-gf' switch, SST will change to the directory of the first found file without prompting you. Switch: -H or -HO Meaning: start searching in the current subdirectory Description: The '-h' switch tells SST "start searching where I'm at right now". For example, if you are currently in the TURBOC subdirectory, then the following two commands would do the exact same thing: SST \turboc\myprog.c or SST myprog.c -h The '-ho' switch tells SST to both (a) start in the current directory, and (b) to ONLY search the current directory. With this switch, SST can be used as a directory program with the ability to list archive files. For example, you could create the following batch file and call it ARCDIR.BAT: @echo off SST %1 -ho -a Now, when you give the command "ARCDIR", you will be shown the directory listing, along with all files contained within archive files in your current subdirectory. Switch: -I Meaning: ignore the environment variable SST Supersonic Search Tool Page 12 Command Line Switches Description: The '-i' switch tells SST to ignore any default switches that you have set with the SST environment variable. This is most useful if you have page-breaking set up as a default, but need to redirect SST's output to a file. You could do this with a command such as: SST *.bat -i >files.dat Switch: -M -R -PL Meaning: modify SST's default output display Description: These switches allow you to modify the way that SST displays its output. By default, SST will place the filename on the left of the screen (just like DIR does). If you prefer, you can use '-M' to place the filename in the middle of the screen, '-R' to place the filename on the right of the screen, or '-PL' to put the pathname on the left of the screen. Usually set in the environment. Switch: -K Meaning: search only the PATH directories Description: This switch will cause SST to search only the directories that are specified in your DOS PATH environment variable. This option will be used very rarely, but was requested by a user. Note: As of v4.1a, this switch was changed. The '-K' switch was previously the '-C' switch. Switch: -Y Meaning: display the output with European-style dates (DD-MM-YY) Description: Again, a seldom-used switch, but requested by a user. Switch: -V [-N] Meaning: do a verified delete of any matching files found Description: These switches tell SST to delete any matching files found. If you specify only the '-V' switch, then SST will prompt you before it deletes each file. If you specify BOTH the '-V' and the '-N' switch, then SST --WILL NOT-- prompt you; it will just go ahead and delete the file (PLEASE be careful with this one!). I use these switches daily to clean up all of the .BAK files created by Turbo C. For example: SST *.bak -v -n Switch: -W Meaning: show wasted space occupied by matching files. Description: This switch is used very little, but can come in handy if you are trying to figure out how much disk space is being wasted Supersonic Search Tool Page 13 Command Line Switches by a bunch of very small files (batch files are a prime example). SST will total and display to you the amount of disk space that is being wasted due to cluster overhead. Switch: -U Meaning: display all output in upper case Description: Some people still prefer to see directory-type listings in ALL UPPER CASE; if you're one of these people, then just use the '-U' switch. It's best to set this in your SST environment variable. Switch: -P Meaning: pause and wait for a key when the screen fills up Description: A very handy switch, best used when set in your environment variable. It will cause SST to pause the screen when it fills up, so you don't have to go crazy trying to hit the control-S key. Switch: -PKLite Meaning: search for files compressed with PKLite Description: This switch will cause SST to only look for .COM and .EXE files that have been compressed with PK-Ware's PKLITE program. PKLite is a program that compresses executable programs, and then un-compresses them at runtime. Switch: -Xfilemask Meaning: exclude this filespec from the search Description: The '-X' switch allows you to exclude certain filenames from the directory search. You can specify up to 25 exclusion masks. For example, if you wanted to see all files on your drive except for .OBJ and .PRG files, you could do: SST *.* -x*.obj -x*.prg Switch: -LT -EQ -GT Meaning: specify a file size range Description: These switches allow you to search only for files within a certain size range. Some examples: SST *.PAS -LT1024 would display all .PAS files that have a size smaller than 1024 bytes. SST *.* -EQ0 would display all files that have a length of zero. Supersonic Search Tool Page 14 Command Line Switches SST *.* -GT500000 would display all files that are larger than 500,000 bytes. SST *.* -GT1023 -LT2049 would display all files that are from 1,024 to 2,048 bytes in size, inclusive. Switch: -S -B Meaning: specify a file date range Description: These switches allow you to search only for files within a certain date range. These switches are the "since" (S) switch and the "before" (B) switch. Both switches come in two flavors; you can specify the date in number of days (eg: -S5) or with a full date (eg: -S8-19-89). If you specify either switch with no date specifier, then it defaults to '0 days'. These date specifiers are also used when looking inside of archive files. Some examples: SST *.PAS -S5 would display all .PAS files that have a date greater than or equal to 5 days ago (in other words, modified SINCE 5 days ago). SST *.PAS -S5-1-89 would display all .PAS files modified SINCE 5/1/89. SST *.PAS -B5 would display all .PAS files modified BEFORE 5 days ago. SST *.PAS -B5-1-89 would display all .PAS files modified BEFORE 5/1/89. SST *.PAS -S5-1-89 -B6-1-89 would display all .PAS files modified between the dates of 5-1-89 and 5-31-89. SST *.PAS -S would display all .PAS files that have been modified today (defaults to '-S0'). Switch: -Z Meaning: show only files with their archive bit set Supersonic Search Tool Page 15 Command Line Switches Description: The '-Z' switch allows you to display only those files which have their "archive bit" set on. In other words, it will show all files that have been modified since your last backup (if your backup program clears the archive bit, that is). Switch: -HIDDEN Meaning: also show hidden and system files Description: The '-hidden' switch allows you to also display those files which are "system" and "hidden" files. Supersonic Search Tool Page 16 The SST and SST_DRIVES Environment Variables When SST begins execution, it searches the environment for a variable named SST. If this variable is present, its contents will be appended onto the command line just as if you had entered them in from the keyboard. This option is very handy for setting "default options" that you'd like for SST to perform every time. Simply set the SST variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. For example, if you'd like to always (a) page break when the screen fills up, (b) display the filenames on the right of the screen, and (c) display output in upper case, you would put the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET SST=-P -R -U SST would then use these options every time you executed the program. If you specify the "-d" switch (search all drives), then SST will search the environment looking for a variable named SST_DRIVES. If this variable is found, SST will use this list as the definition of the drives to search. If the SST_DRIVES variable does not exist, SST will use its own list, which defaults to drives c: through z: (ie: cde...z). The SST_DRIVES variable was added mainly for those people using networks. SST's reckless abandon of simply searching all drive letters caused some network users a lot of headaches. It seems that those affected the most were users of Novell networks. On Novell, you can specify many different drive letters for the same "volume" (ie: partition), so SST would show the same physical file many times, since SST thought that it was really on a different drive. With the SST_DRIVES variable, it is up to the user to tell SST what drives are physically different. For example, let's assume that you have 3 volumes defined, and the drive letter assignments are as follows: Volume 1 - drives C: and D: Volume 2 - drives E: and F: Volume 3 - drives G: and H: For SST to work correctly, you would put the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: Set SST_DRIVES=CEG Now, when you search using the "-d" switch, SST won't list duplicate filenames. I have never used a Novell network, so I'm hoping that this change will eliminate the problems. This problem was brought up to me in a letter from Bud Huddleston of Chamblee, GA. Luckily, he went into great detail on what the problem was. The SST_DRIVES variable was the easiest way I could think of to attack this problem. If this isn't the best way to handle the situation, I'd appreciate it if you Novell users would drop me a line with suggestions. Note that the search for the SST_DRIVES variable CAN NOT be over-ridden from the command line. If the SST_DRIVES variable Supersonic Search Tool Page 17 The SST and SST_DRIVES Environment Variables exists, it is used every time. If you need to search a different list, you must specify a drive list with the filename instead of using the "-d" switch. For example, "SST cdfg:*.bat". For those users who are not on a network, you don't need to do anything differently from version 3.5 of SST. If the SST_DRIVES variable isn't defined, then v3.6 will perform exactly as v3.5 did. Supersonic Search Tool Page 18 Duplicate Filename Searching V4.0 of SST incorporates a feature that I've been wanting for a very long time - the ability to search all drives, including Archive files, and display only those files that are duplicated somewhere else. This was a fairly major upgrade to do, but it turned out (in my opinion) to be the best added feature to SST yet. Maybe I'm worse than other people at this, but I'm terrible about doing a download of a file, un-Arcing it, and then starting to use it. Of course, the original of that file is still sitting out there somewhere in an Archive file just eating up hard disk space. With the new -DUP feature, cleaning up your multiple hard drives from any duplicate files is much easier. But, be aware that when you invoke the -DUP switch, SST gets VERY memory-hungry. This is because SST must keep information on every filename on all of your hard drives (including all of those filenames in any Archive files) in memory AT ONE TIME. If you ever get the message "Error: out of memory!" when trying to find duplicates across all drives, there are a couple of things that you can do. First of all, see if you can free up any more memory by removing any TSR's or device drivers. If you still get the "out of memory" message, then there are two different things that you can do. The first is that you could compare the drives two (or three) at a time. For example, if you have drives C:, D:, E:, and F:, first compare drives C: and D:, then C: and E:, etc. until you've scanned them all. The second thing you can do (the way I prefer) is to do the duplicate scan with a filemask; in other words, do the scan on *.EXE, then *.COM, then *.BAT, etc. For example, here's a sample of what you'd do: C:> SST *.com -d -a -dup C:> SST *.bat -d -a -dup C:> SST *.exe -d -a -dup I don't see the "out of memory" being a problem except for those people with HUGE hard drives. I have two 40-meg drives, both packed full of ZIP files, and I never got close to filling up memory. In addition, SST is fairly intelligent when saving the names in memory; for example, if you have 300 files in the path C:\TEST1\TEMP\DATA, the actual pathname will only get saved one time. If you are looking for duplicates on a very big hard drive system (let's say 80 meg or more), then SST will take some time. Don't be alarmed if the program seems to not be doing anything; searching the file tables of very large hard drives takes some time. I tinkered with the idea of putting in a twirling cursor or something so that you'd know SST was still alive, but I decided against it. Since duplicate searching will probably be redirected to a printer or a disk file most of the time, I didn't want to trash up the display. Supersonic Search Tool Page 19 Duplicate Filename Searching Don't forget that the -DUP switch works in tandem with ALL other SST switches. For example, specifying -DUP doesn't automatically scan all hard drives and look inside all Archive files. You must still specify the -A and -D switches. Also, filename exclusions still work just like normal. Let's do a few examples: C:> SST -d -a -dup This is the command you'll normally want to do when searching for duplicates. It causes SST to search all hard drives, and inside Archive files, looking for duplicates. C:> SST *.bat -d -a -dup This command would only list the duplicate .BAT files on your hard drives. C:> SST cd:*.* -a -dup -x*.bak -x*.doc This command would display all duplicate files on drives C: and D: except any .BAK or .DOC files. Supersonic Search Tool Page 20 Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog ---------------------------------- Listed below is a chart of my other shareware and freeware utilities, along with the current version number of each. Also listed is the filename that you will find them under on BBS systems (please note that they may be different on your favorite BBS's, but it should help you at least get close to locating them). When you register one of my Shareware programs, you will receive a disk with all of these utilities on it. Filename Version Description ----------- ------- ------------------------------- SST_53a.ZIP 5.3a The ultimate file-finder program. Until recently this was simply called "WhereIs". It's now been renamed to "Supersonic Search Tool" to avoid confusion with other programs. Shareware: $15 LCD_31a.ZIP 2.1a "Led's Change Directory" is an intelligent directory changing program. This program was voted one of "the 10 best utilities of 1990" by the "Public (software) Library" magazine. Shareware: $15 AV_12.ZIP 1.2 "Archive Viewer" is used to display the names of members of all of the popular archiving programs (ZIP, ARC, LHARC, PKARC, ZOO, PAK). No longer do you have to struggle remembering the syntax to 6 different archiving programs. Freeware: $0 X_30.ZIP 3.0 "X: The Executioner" can save you a lot of disk space. X allows you to ZIP down those seldom-used-but-hard-to-delete .COM, .EXE, and .BAT files into one system "Command Library". You can then execute them easily by simply typing an "x" in front of the command line (eg: "x chkdsk c:"). Freeware: $0 ADMENU30.ZIP 3.0 If you own an Adlib Music card, you need this program. It allows you to ZIP down all of those .ROL song files you've accumulated, yet still play them with no extra effort! Uses a mouse-able, easy-on-the-eyes window system. Freeware: $0 DELDIR12.ZIP 1.2 "Delete Directory" allows you to delete an entire directory (and all directories under it) with one quick command. You will be Supersonic Search Tool Page 21 Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog shown totals of what you are about to delete and then be asked to confirm (the confirm process can be over-ridden from the command line). Freeware: $0 DIRSIZ11.ZIP 1.1 "Directory Size Information" allows you to easily determine the total size (in both files and bytes) of any directory. Freeware: $0 DUPICO10.ZIP 1.0 "Duplicate Icon Deleter" is for any Windows 3.0 user who has accumulated tons of icons. It will go through a directory and delete all duplicate icon images, regardless of what they are named. Freeware: $0 TIMER10.ZIP 1.0 This program allows you to easily time the execution of any program. Simply use TIMER to invoke the command (eg: "timer chkdsk C:") and you will be shown, at the completion of the command, the elapsed time. Freeware: $0 UNTAB10.ZIP 1.0 One of the fastest "un-tab" programs you will find. It takes the specified input file and copies it to the specified output file, replacing all tab characters with hard blanks (you specify the "tab size"). Freeware: $0 You can download all of these files from the Blue Ridge Express in Richmond, VA. This is the official tech support board for all of my software, and there's a special "Keith Ledbetter" message section where you can quickly get your questions answered. Once you log on, just do a "J KEITHL" to join my sub-board. First-time callers have access to both my message base and all of my download files. The Blue Ridge Express is a first-class BBS, with 30 phone lines; no need to worry about getting a busy signal! The number is: The Blue Ridge Express BBS 804-790-1675 Supersonic Search Tool Page 22 Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog All of my software can also be obtained from the following places: Alternative Personal Software 269 Springside Drive Suite C Hamilton, Ontario Canada L9B 1P8 Tel: (416) 577-4068 PC Assist Limited 4 Carruber's Close 135 High Street Edinburgh, EH1 1SJ Scotland Tel: 031-557-6432 BroCo Software P. O. Box 446 3760 AK SOEST Holland Tel: 31-2155-26650 EURO BOARD John Warren Postfach 3920 ZERMATT, VS Switzerland BBS: (0228) / 476-111-06 (Swiss Telepac) End of document.