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- WIZ version 3.4
- by Ray Van Tassle
- 1020 Fox Run Lane
- Algonquin, Ill, 60102
- (708)-658-4941
- internet email: rayvt@comm.mot.com
- July 20, 1995
-
- WIZ program and manual copyright(c) 1990-1994 by Ray Van Tassle.
-
- Abstract:
- WIZ is a lightning-fast file finder. It will find file(s)
- based on full wildcard specifications (more powerful than
- standard DOS wildcard), and can also filter by file size
- and date. It can:
- * select only executable files (EXE, COM, BAT).
- * select only archive files (ZIP, ARC, etc.)
- * switch you to the disk\directory of a file that it found.
- * execute a DOS command for each file it finds.
- * look inside archives (ZIP, LZH, & ARJ)
- * recursively look inside archives!
- * Correct handling of the special files/directories created and
- maintained by STACKER, DoubleDisk, DoubleSpace, DriveSpace,
- Norton FILESAVE, and PCTOOLS DATA Sentry.
-
- It will look on multiple disk drives for all matching
- filenames. You can pre-specify several default lists of
- disk drives for it to search.
-
-
- WIZ program and manual copyright(c) 1990-1994 by Ray Van Tassle.
-
- WIZ is shareware, NOT freeware!!!
-
- You are granted a limited 21 day evaluation license. At the end
- of that period, you should either delete it and stop using it,
- or send in the registration fee of $20 ($15 if you don't want me to
- send you a disk).
-
-
-
- MANUAL
- ------
- I was tempted to call this program YAFF (yet another file
- finder), but I settled on WIZ. This is a funny acronym for
- "where is". But it's also short for WIZARD, because it's so
- fast it seems like magic, and it's filename matching is so
- powerful.
-
- It looks on one or more disks for all filenames (including
- directories) that match the specified filename. By default, it
- starts on drive C, and goes up until it runs out of disks.
-
- It has been tested, and works, with DOS 3.x, including Zenith
- DOS 3.30, DOS 3.31, DOS 4.01, DOS 5.0, DOS6.2, Windows 95,and
- On-Track partitioning software. DOS 3.31+ have large
- (greater than 32MB) partitions with more than 65,536 sectors.
- Zenith DOS 3.30 and On-Track have large partitions by virtue of
- using large sectors (1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes, rather than
- 512 bytes).
-
- WIZ normally prints out, for each matching file, the filename,
- date, time, size, and path. The files are NOT ordered or
- sorted. All "special" files (hidden, system) are
- flagged with a left-pointing triangle after the filename.
- Optionally, it will list the files in normal fully-pathed form
- (e.g., C:\UTIL\PGMS\ABC.BAT), suitable for processing by a
- program which expects normal filenames. When the found file
- is inside an archive (-l flag), it will be listed in a form
- suitable for the archiver (e.g.,
- "C:\UTIL\PGMS\FOO.ZIP FILE.EXE")
-
- I deemed that most of the time, people (including me) want it
- to be FAST, rather than in some particular order.
- As WIZ reads the disk, it tries to optimize the head
- motion, so directories are not processed in order of path, but
- in the order that WIZ thinks will be quickest. However, it will
- generally look at the files in a directory before it looks at
- the sub-directories. However (especially if you have
- directories with lots of files and sub-directories), it may
- show some files in a directory, then show sub-directories, then
- show more files in the directory.
-
- WIZ will ignore STACKER, DUBLDISK, DRVSPACE, and DBLSPACE container
- files in the count of files & MB's scanned. This file has
- attributes of RHS, and is named "STACVOL.0??", "DUBLSPAC.0??",
- "DBLSPACE.0??", or "DRVSPACE.0??"
-
- Likewise, WIZ will ignore the special hidden directories where
- Norton's "FILESAVE" and PCTOOLS "DATAMON/SENTRY" move files that
- have been deleted. These tools & their directories are a super
- undelete, and they are reported by DOS to have been deleted, but
- the respective utilities really just have them tucked away in a
- hidden place. So WIZ treats these files as not being there, too.
-
-
-
- PERFORMANCE & Comparison with other file-find programs
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Some tests, run on a 486/33mhz, searching for a non-existent
- file on a large disk partitioned into drives C thru J,
- 17,000 total files, 747MB in files, in 572 directories.
-
- WIZ 3.1 Target15 FFF45 Seek202
- ------- -------- ----- -------
- 19.1 83.3 53.1 47.3 No cache
-
- The command used were:
- WIZ c-j:*qwe*
- TARGET -e -hidden cdefghij: "qwe"
- FFF /e cdefghij: ".*qwe.*"
- SEEK cdefghij:qwe*.*
-
- Notes:
- TARGET claims to have real regexp's but they aren't.
- FFF appears to have real regexp's.
-
-
- When used with a disk cache, of 2MB (2048K).
-
- WIZ 3.1 Target15 FFF45 Seek202
- ------- -------- ----- -------
- 18.7 44.3 40.2 41.5 PC-CACHE v6.01
- 1.3 16.3 8.3 13.0 " 2nd command
-
- 19.7 37.4 30.2 ? SMARTDRV v5.0
- 19.5 37.8 29.8 ? " 2nd command
-
- 19.7 83.3 50.9 ? HYPER386 v4.65
- 16.1 53.5 36.7 ?
-
- The first line is just after clearing the cache.
- The next is running the same command again, giving maximum
- advantage to the cache. In my testing, I have found that PC-CACHE
- seems to provide the best all-around performance.
- In fact, with WIZ, SMARTDRV actually takes longer!! Starting with
- WIZ v2.9, it momentarily disables SMARTDRV while it scans a disk.
-
-
- ERRORLEVEL exit codes
- ---------------------
- 0 = Normal exit.
- 1 = Normal exit. -g changes disk/path
- 2 = Bad command line.
- 255 = Internal error.
-
-
- Error Messages
- --------------
- "INVALID directory:"
- Encountered what appears to be an illegal directory
- entry. This is a clue for a corrupted disk, or a file
- which is NOT a directory masquerading as one.
-
- "Can't tell if FAT-12 or FAT-16. Assuming FAT-16!"
- Just what it says. I've only seen this on networked
- disk drives. If you know how to RELIABLY tell what
- type of FAT a disk has (other than going thru DOS),
- please let me know.
-
- "malloc failed for FAT_buf!"
- Can't allocate memory to read a FAT block. Most
- likely an internal error.
-
- "malloc failed for dir_sec_buf!"
- Can't allocate memory to read in a directory sector.
- Most likely an internal error.
-
- "Sorry, out of memory!!!"
- You lose.
-
- "Can't open file:"
- Failure to open an archive file. Most likely a disk
- error. Run CHKDSK.
-
- "Internal error in ZIP/LZH/ARJ file"
- The data read from in archive file isn't as expected.
- Most likely the archive has a new format, and WIZ
- hasn't yet been updated. 'Course, the archive file
- may be corrupted.
-
- "INVALID directory"
- A sub-directory (whose name is displayed) is not valid.
- Your directory structure has been corrupted. You should
- run a utility to fix it--Norton NDD or PC-TOOLS DISKFIX.
-
- "Can't recurse in this!"
- The archive file cannot be recursively searched, because
- it is compressed.
-
- NETWORK DRIVES
- --------------
- WIZ has been tested, and runs ok under several networks:
- Pathworks (Digital Equipment Corp), $25Network (Information Modes),
- EBOX (Rupp).
- Version 2.7 works on Novell, Lantastic, and other networks.
-
- CD-ROMS
- -------
- WIZ works on CD-ROM's.
-
- BUGS
- ----
- No known bugs. However, WIZ mostly does not use DOS to
- process a disk, so errors on my part, or a change in the disk
- structure might break it. The most major bug reported was on
- huge disk partitions under MS-DOS 4.01. This bug caused WIZ
- to read a random block from the disk, and treat it as a
- directory. It made a valiant attempt to march down all the
- phony sub-directories, and would actually run for quite a
- while before printing one of the "malloc failure" messages.
-
- If you are having problems, try 1) use the "-v" switch, to
- isolate the error to a specific disk, 2) use "-vv", to see
- as it hits each sub-directory, 3) use "*.*" to see all the
- files, and watch until it walks off the edge of the world.
- Then call or write me.
-
-
- Command Line format and Switches
- --------------------------------
-
- WIZ [disks:]file_pattern [-sN] [-dN] [-p] [-pp] [-gN] [-x] [-mN]
- [-e] [-qS] [-n] [-4]
- [-a] [-v] [-l[b][l]] [-cS] [-?] [>output-file-name]
-
- As usual, the stuff inside the square brackets "[]" are
- optional and may be present or omitted. You do NOT include
- the brackets in your command line.
- The various fields and options may appear in any order, in
- either upper or lower case.
- The switch character can be either "-" or "/".
-
- You can have more than one set of "[disk:]pattern", and it
- does the correct thing. That is, it scans each set in turn.
- So you can say: "WIZ c:pyro* cd:*.cfg *.ovr".
-
- In order to fix a possible usage mistake (and to follow the syntax
- of other filefind programs), WIZ will accept a space between the ":"
- and the pattern. So, "WIZ c:pyro" acts the same as "WIZ c: pyro"
-
- Except for size (-s) and date (-d), the options may be run
- together.
- For example: "WIZ -g20xp" is the same as "WIZ -g20 -x -p".
-
-
-
- If you just invoke WIZ without any parameters, it gives you a
- brief help line. For more info, include '-?'. For even more,
- include '-??'.
-
- If you leave out a pattern, but do have switche(s), WIZ assumes
- that you want a pattern of "*".
-
- Disk(s): & filename_pattern
- ---------------------------
- 1) [disks:]pattern
- 2) pattern
- 3) :pattern
-
- With format 1, you specify the disk(s) you want it to look at,
- followed by ":". It will look at those drives, in the order
- you listed them. If you list the same one twice, it will look
- at it twice. You can specify a range of disks by using a
- dash--"C-F" is the same as "CDEF".
-
- With format 2, it will look at all drives beginning with C. It
- will stop when it hits a drive that it cannot read.
-
- With format 3, it will look at all drives beginning with A. It
- will stop when it hits a drive that it cannot read, except A &
- B. If the floppy drive has a disk in, it will look at it,
- otherwise it will ignore the floppy drive.
-
- If you have only one floppy drive, WIZ will check to see if DOS
- last used it as A or B, and will skip the other drive letter
- (B or A).
-
- You do not (and cannot) specify path or directory names,
- because WIZ searches an entire disk.
-
-
- Processing Disk(s) and Environment Variable
- -------------------------------------------
- You can over-ride the disks that WIZ looks at, and their
- order, by making an environment variable "WIZ". Do:
- "SET WIZ=floppy-disk-list:hard-disk-list". Example:
- "SET WIZ=AB:C-M". What actually happens is that WIZ will
- try to read all the disks to the left of the colon, then all
- those to the right of the colon. Those on the left are
- deemed to be floppies, and it will keep going if it can't
- read one. Those on the right are deemed to be hard drives,
- and it will quit on the first one that it can't read.
-
- You may omit the "default" disk set by leaving a space after
- the "=". This is most useful when you need only to put the
- "/M" switch, as: "SET WIZ= /M".
-
-
- If you specify disks on the command line, it will try to read
- them all, even if it can't read one.
-
- The list may be discontiguous, (e.g., "C-FL-M"). This is
- mostly useful if you are on a network, which tends to make
- the networked disks at the higher letters, and leaves a hole
- before them.
-
-
- Pre-defined Drive Sets
- ----------------------
- You can actually have several pre-defined sets of disks to
- search. If the disk-specifier on the command line is a single
- digit (0-9), it will look for that specifier in the WIZ
- variable. For example, you might say:
- "SET WIZ=AB:C-F 1=CDEF 2=AB: 3=C-Z 4=C-Z:"
-
- As above, those to the left of the colon are deemed floppies,
- and WIZ will keep going if it can't read one; those to the
- right are hard drives, and WIZ will quit if it can't read one.
- However, if there isn't a colon, then they are ALL deemed to
- be hard drives.
-
- The command "WIZ z.z", will look on ABCDEF.
- The command "WIZ 1:z.z", will look on CDEF.
- The command "WIZ 2:z.z", will look on AB.
- The command "WIZ 3:z.z", will look on all drives C-Z (and
- will quit at the first on that it can't read).
- The command "WIZ 4:z.z", will look on all drives C-Z (and it
- will attempt to read each and every one of them).
- The command "WIZ 9:z.z", will give an error message.
-
-
-
-
-
- PATTERN:
- --------
- I call it "pattern" rather than "filename", because WIZ
- does a full pattern-match against the actual filenames it
- reads from the disk. The pattern has four special characters
- (called meta-characters), plus all the other characters
- possible in a filename.
- (These are the same wildcard patterns as in 4DOS.)
-
- 1) "*" (star)
- 2) "?" (question mark)
- 3) "[" (square bracket)
- 4) "." (dot),
-
-
- 1) "*" This is the "rubber" wildcard meta-character. The
- star will match as many characters as possible, from
- none to the entire filename. It is "rubber", because
- it will shrink & stretch to match as many characters
- as required.
-
- 2) "?" This is the "single" wildcard meta-character. It will
- match exactly ONE character in the filename.
-
- 3) "[...]" This will match any single character within the brackets,
- including a range of characters. For example:
- [abcw-z] will match any of:
- a or b or c or w or x or y or z
- If the very next character after the "[" is a "!", then
- it is inverted---this will match any character that
- is NOT specified. For example:
- [!aeiou] will match any character EXCEPT a vowel.
-
- 4) "." This is the "separator" meta-character (it is NOT a
- wildcard character).
- If you specify a dot in the pattern, the disk filename
- (and the pattern) is treated as having two parts,
- one before the dot, and one after the dot.
- Each part undergoes it's own pattern matching.
-
- If you don't have any meta-characters in the filename pattern,
- WIZ appends a "*" on the end of what you specified.
-
- Proper pattern matching (like WIZ does) is almost a D.W.I.M.
- (do what I mean) operation. DOS's wildcards are so primitive
- that it is professionally embarrassing. Not only that, but the
- pattern-matching subroutine in WIZ is only a couple of dozen
- lines of code. And it's surprisingly fast.
-
- To give some examples:
- *A* means:
- any file which has an A anywhere in it, on either side
- of the dot.
-
- Z* Any file that starts with a Z
- (ZZBC.BAT Z.Z)
-
- ?. Any filename that has exactly one character in it, and
- has no extent. (A. B. but not AB. or A.BAT)
-
- ?* Any filename that isn't totally blank.
-
- A*T any file that starts with A and ends with T in the
- extent. (ABCDE.BAT A.T AB.ERT but not ABCERT.)
-
- A*T. any file that starts with A and ends with T, and
- has no extent. (ABCERT. but not ABCERT.RST)
-
- A*T.* any file that starts with A and ends with T, whether or
- not it has an extent.
- (ABCERT. ABCERT.RST ABCDET.COM)
-
- A*B*Z.* any file that starts with A, then somewhere to the right
- has a B, then ends with Z, and has any extent.
- (ABZ.BAT AMNOBPQRZ. ABYXZ.COM)
-
- *.C any file with an extent of C
-
- W*.C any file that starts with W and has a C extent. (W.C
- WIZ.C WIZ14.C)
-
- W*4.C any file that starts with W, ends with 4, and has an
- extent of C.
-
- ???.C any file that has exactly 3 characters in the name, and
- an extent of C.
-
- Directories also participate in the filename matching. A lot
- of other whereis programs don't tell you about directory names
- that match. I find this annoying, because many times I can
- remember the directory name (or at least part of it), but not
- the file names. This is especially true for things that I
- have downloaded. Since directories normally don't have an
- extent (although they can), for matching purposes a directory
- that does not have an extent is treated as if it has a blank
- extent, so it has a dot. But when it is printed out, this
- implied dot isn't printed.
-
- POPDROP. will match the directory name "POPDROP"
- and the filename "POPDROP.", but not "POPDROP.COM"
-
- POPDROP.* will match all of the above
-
- POPDROP will match all of the above, but also POPDROP2.COM
- etc.
-
-
-
-
- -s Size qualifier
- -----------------
- Files may be further filtered by their size. Either or both
- minimum and maximum size may be specified. A file will match
- only if it's size falls between the two limits, inclusive.
- Note that a directory, while it is really a file, is not
- considered to have a size, so directories will NEVER show up
- if you give a size qualifier. This gives a way to never show
- directories: just add "-s0". All other files have a size
- that is greater than or equal to zero.
-
- -s[low_limit][:hi_limit]
-
- -s100 Files that are 100 or more bytes large.
-
- -s:10000 Files that are 10000 or less bytes large.
-
- -s500:600 Files whose size is greater than or equal to
- 500 bytes, and less than or equal to 600 bytes.
-
- -s1000:1000 Files that are exactly 1000 bytes large.
-
-
-
- -d Date qualifier
- -----------------
- Files may also be filtered by date. Either or both
- lowest & highest date may be specified. A file will match
- only if it's date falls between the two limits, inclusive.
-
- -d[low_date][:high_date]
-
- The format for date is MM/DD/YY or MM-DD-YY or "*" or "*-N".
- The year can be given as either "91" or "1991".
- "*" means the current date.
- "*-N" means "N" days before the current date.
-
- -d1/1/90 Files dated on or after Jan 1, 1990.
-
- -d:12-31-87 Files dated on or before Dec 31, 1987.
-
- -d1-1-90:12-31-1990 Files dated anytime in 1990.
-
- -d12/12/90:11/11/90 No files---it's impossible for a file to
- be dated after Dec 12, 1990 and before
- Nov 11, 1990 (inclusive)
- -d* Files dated today or after today.
- -d:* Files dated before today.
- -d*:* Files dated today only.
- -d*-10 Files dated within the last 10 days.
- -d*-365 Files dated within the last year (365 days).
-
-
- -e Extended precision in time display
- ----------------------------------------
- Displays seconds also in the date/time information.
-
- -4 Look at 4DOS file descriptions
- ------------------------------------
- Rather than looking at filenames, WIZ will look at the 4DOS
- (and NDOS) file descriptions (found in a hidden file in
- each directory, named DESCRIPT.ION). The default without any
- "?" or "*" in the pattern is changed to be "*pattern*", so that
- it will find any occurance of the word(s) you give.
- With this option, WIZ will just print the path, filename, and
- description. Date and size are not examined, so they can't be
- used as a filter, and will not be printed.
-
- -n Skip over network drives
- ------------------------------
- Many network drives can only be accessed in the "proper" way.
- This slows down WIZ quite a bit. This option will force WIZ to
- omit any drive that it figures requires this slow access method.
- Novell and Lantastic are two networks that will be slow.
- Little-Big-Lan (by Information Modes) is a great little lan that
- allows WIZ to use it's fast access method.
-
- -p List in canonical pathname format
- ---------------------------------------
- The matching files are listed in normal DOS format:
- disk:\path\name.ext
- If the "-l" flag ("look inside archives") is given,
- the format is:
- disk\path\archive-name.zip filename.ext
-
- Date, time, size are not given. This type of list
- is presumably going to be fed into a program as a
- list of files, so directories will not be listed.
-
- -pp List in pathname format, without header/trailer
- -----------------------------------------------------
- Same as "-p", except the header and trailer information
- is omitted. This is particularly useful when the output
- is to be fed into another program, as a list of (only) matching
- filenames.
-
- -q Limit scan to certain path(s)
- ------------------------------------
- This will allow you to limit the search to certain directory
- name(s). The format is:
- -qDIRECTORY-NAME
-
- If it starts with "\", then this is the path from the root.
- If it doesn't, then this is the trailing part of the path.
- If it ends with "\", then this is for all the subdirectories, too.
- If it doesn't, then this is for only this directory,
- not any sub-directories.
-
- -qdos Will scan files in "\dos", "\abc\dos", but not
- "\abc\dos\xyz".
- -q\dos Will scan files in "\dos", but not "\abc\dos".
- -q\abc\dos Will scan files in "\abc\dos", but not "\dos".
- -qdos\ Will scan files in "\dos", "\dos\abc", and
- "\abc\dos\xyz".
- -qray\van Will scan files in "\dos\ray\van", but not
- "\dos\ray\xyz" or "\dos\ray\van\tmp".
- -q\ Will scan only the root directory.
-
-
- -g Go to directory
- ----------------------
- This will change your path to the disk & directory of the
- Nth file in the list of files that matched. If you omit
- N (or N is zero), it will ask you at each match if that is
- where you want to go.
-
- If that file is a directory, WIZ will set the path to that
- directory. On the other hand, if it is a file, WIZ will set
- the path to be the directory that the file is in.
-
- Obviously, if N is larger than the number of files that match,
- nothing will happen.
-
- -g5 Will change to the path of the 5th listed file.
- -g1 Will change to the path of the first listed file.
- -g Will ask you at each matched file if it should change
- to the path of the listed file.
-
-
- -x Executable files
- ----------------------
- This switch will set a pre-filter, and select only executable
- files (.BAT, .COM, .EXE) that pass the other filters (size,
- date, pattern). For this to work properly, the pattern should
- either not have a dot, or terminate with ".*" (because this is
- just an additional filter, albeit one with three holes).
-
- I added this because a lot of times I find myself looking for
- a handy but seldom-used program, and I can never remember if
- it's a COM or an EXE file. And if I put "*FOO*.*", WIZ lists
- everything, including the directory, DOC, README, etc.
-
-
- -m More (pause)
- ------------------
- Act like "MORE"--pause and wait for a key to be hit after each
- screenful of lines have been displayed. It checks how many
- lines are actually displayed on the screen (25, 28, 43, 50, etc.)
- You can give a number after the "m", and it will use that size
- instead.
-
-
- -a Archive files
- -------------------
- This works just like "-x", except it's for archive files.
- These are ZIP, ARC, LZH, ZOO, ARJ, PAK.
-
-
- -v Verbose
- -------------
- If you have this flag once, WIZ will print the disk name when
- it starts as it starts on a disk. If you have it twice
- (-vv), it will also print the name of each directory as it
- starts processing it. This is mostly useful for trouble
- shooting, or to see a progress indication.
-
-
- -l Look inside archives
- --------------------------
- This switch will make it look inside archives (ZIP, LZH, and
- ARJ archives only), for a matching filespec. Note that all
- the filters apply to the file INSIDE the archive, and NOT to
- the archive itself. The disk list will, however, still
- specify the disks to look at.
-
- Both PKZIP and ARJ come with information on the internal
- format of their archive files, including the header. Neither
- LHARC nor LHA do, but it was pretty easy for me to figure
- out. I do ZIP's because that is currently the most common
- type of archive. LHA compresses smaller, but lacks a few
- features, and is slower in compressing. ARJ is the BEST. It
- packs 5% - 10% tighter than ZIP (but is slower in
- compressing), and includes all the nice features of ZIP,
- including encryption, comments, etc, and also can
- automagically create a segmented archive, so you can put a
- huge archive onto several floppy disks, without having to use
- SLICE/SPLICE. It also comes with a handy utility to convert
- any other archive type to ARJ's. I didn't do any other
- archivers, because 1) I don't have information on the
- internal format, 2) these three are the most common, and
- best, and 3) I don't want WIZ to get any larger than
- necessary.
-
- -ll Look inside archives recursively
- ---------------------------------------
- This switch will tell WIZ that you want it to also look
- inside archives that are themselves in an archive. Naturally,
- WIZ can only do this if the inside archive is "stored" (no
- compression). However, ARJ and PKZIP v2, can (and WILL)
- compress a ZIP file as it adds it to an archive!!
-
- In the output, these show up with a "@" where you would
- normally see "\", which indicates that it's "kind of like" a
- path. If this pseudo-pathname gets too long, a "+" is tacked
- on at the end, instead of the actual filename; one for each
- level that is being omitted.
-
- You can also use the "-c" switch, but the filename that
- replaces the "*" in the command won't make any kind of sense
- to DOS, ARJ, LHA ZIP, etc., because of the "@" characters.
-
- -b Both
- ------------
- This switch is used with "-l" to look both at normal files,
- and inside archives.
-
-
-
- -c Execute a command
- -------------------------
- This lets you execute a DOS command for each matching file.
- The format is '-cCOMMAND' or '-c COMMAND'. However, if the
- COMMAND has any special characters (space, |, <, >, etc.) you
- must enclose it in quotes: '-c"COMMAND"'.
-
- Each occurance (if any) of the character "*" in the command is
- replaced by the complete file-name (including disk and path).
-
- WIZ will spawn a new copy of the command-line shell
- (COMMAND.COM, 4DOS, etc.), and pass it the built command. The
- one exception is that the command "del*" or "del *" (to
- delete the file) is handled internally by WIZ itself. (Note
- that you can use the form: '-cdel*', and you do not need a
- space before the '*', nor do you need to enclose the command
- in quotes.) For this command, WIZ will prompt you to confirm
- each file to be deleted. (I did this because deleting files
- is a handy thing to do, and it's quicker to do it inside of
- WIZ than to spawn a shell to do it. But I'm no fool!! You
- have to confirm that you want delete, for each file. No
- way am I going to let it merrily delete every file on my
- disk(s) just because I make one little mistake on the command
- line!!) If you prefer to have the shell handle the file
- deletions, use "erase *" or "delete *".
-
- You can't do "-cdel*" along with "-l". If you have given the
- -l switch, the '*" is replaced with the complete filename of
- the archive (.ZIP, .LZH, .ARJ), a space, and then the
- filename.
-
- Examples:
- -c"type *" -- type each matching file
- -c"more <*" -- ditto, with a pause for each page
- -c"copy * a:\" -- copy each matching file to A:
- -c"set" -- display the environment at each
- matching file.
- -c"pkunzip *" -- extract matching files from a ZIP
- archive.
-
-
-
-
-
- Coming Attractions
- ------------------
- An interactive screen interface.
- It will gather the file names instead of just printing them
- out. Then you will be able to sort by name, extent, disk,
- date, size. You'll also be able to tag files and delete, copy,
- move them, and find duplicates.
- Plus other things I think of, or get suggested.
-
- This is shareware, so I'm probably more interested and
- receptive in hearing comments and suggestions than a commercial
- software publisher would be. Just send them in, or give me a
- call. I can't promise to fix bugs, or add specific features,
- but I'll listen to everything. Even if you're cheap and
- haven't registered.
-
-
- BBS Support & New Versions
- --------------------------
- There is no "official" support BBS. However, I frequent a couple
- of local BBS's:
- Chicken Coop (708)658-1545 RIMENET =>THECOOP
- Emporium (708)551-4275 Fidonet 1:155/551
-
- I also release it to the internet, on SimTel and Garbo.
-
-
- ********
- Programming notes (if anyone is interested):
-
- The way I scan thru the disk, it pretty much sweeps thru
- the disk from front to back, without (much) hopping back &
- forth. So it scans the 1st cluster of ALL the directories
- and sub-directories on the disk, then makes a pass thru the
- FAT (from start to end within the FAT), and so on.
-
- This optimization of head movement really helps to speed it
- up, especially if you don't have a fast disk. The
- unfortunate side effect is that it looks at a directory one
- chunk at a time, interspersed with chunks of other
- directories. But it sure is fast!!
-
-
-
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- INVOICE / REGISTRATION
- --------------------------
-
-
-
- Sold to: ___________________________________________________
-
- ___________________________________________________
-
- ___________________________________________________
-
-
- Date: ______________________________
-
-
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-
-
- I will normally send you the latest version on 5 1/4" disk.
- Add $2 for 3 1/2" disk. (Net $22)
- Deduct $5 (per copy) if you DON'T want me to send you a disk!
-
- _____ copies of WIZ version 3.4 at $20 each $____________
-
- _____ copies of RCD version ___ at $20 each $____________
-
- _____ add $2 for 3.5" disk $____________
-
- _____ deduct $5 per copy for no disk (net $15)
-
- DISCOUNT for registering both is
- $5 off. ____________
-
-
-
- TOTAL ENCLOSED....... $____________
- NOTE:
- If you have the current version, I will send you
- a disk with the NEXT version, when I release it,
- unless you check here:
-
- Ray, YES, send me a disk NOW, even though I already
- have the current version: [__]
-
-
-
-
- Where did you get your copy of WIZ?
- Shareware distributor name:___________________
- BBS name: ____________________
- BBS phone #: ____________________
-
-
- Send this invoice and your check to:
-
- Ray Van Tassle
- 1020 Fox Run Lane
- Algonquin, Il. 60102
- (708)-658-4941
- email: rayvt@comm.mot.com
-
-
-
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-
- Thank you for your support ............... Ray Van Tassle
-
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