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- PROGRAM NAME
-
- Find 2.1
-
- AUTHOR
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- Urban D. Müller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
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- SYNOPSIS
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- Find [VIEW] [IN filename] string
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- FUNCTION
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- Find will search an ASCII Aminet index for a case insensitive
- substring and output the matches as an AmigaGuide document which
- it displays immediately.
-
- If you add the VIEW option (or the VIEW=TRUE tooltype from Workbench)
- then the AmigaGuide document will view archives instead of unpacking
- them where possible.
-
- If you add the IN option (or its alias INDEXFILE), that file from
- the lists directory will be used for searching; there is no need to
- specify the path. From Workbench, you can either single click an
- index name and shift-doubleclick 'Find', or you add the INDEXFILE=xxx
- tooltype to the Find icon. Note that Find will append .doc to the index
- file name.
-
- Default index name is AMINETx:Docs/Index_Dir.doc for 'Find', if the
- executable is renamed to 'NewFind' or 'AminetFind', the default
- changes to New_Dir and Aminet_Dir, respectively.
-
- If you specify 'Aminet' as index name, 'Aminet_Dir' will be assumed.
- The same applies for 'Index' and 'New'.
-
- Wild cards are allowed if you run OS 2.0 or above. The pattern can
- be anywhere on the line, but if you specify ^ as the first character,
- it has to be at the beginning of the line. With $ at the end it has
- to be at the end of the line. Other allowed characters are ? (match
- any character), * (match any number of any char) and # (match any
- number of the following character).
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- Find autodetaches.
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- EXAMPLES
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- Find xpk
- Find xpk IN Aminet
- Find ^xpk*handler IN Aminet_Dir
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- SEE ALSO
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- Inspect
-