WhereIs Version 4.4a, released Dec 18, 1990 is a PC-DOS / MS-DOS File Finder written by Keith Ledbetter of Chesterfield, VA. 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. 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 extension: .ARC .ZIP .LZH .ZOO .PAK .PKA You will find that WhereIs can satisfy almost all of your file searching needs. It has a multitude of search options: o The ability to search inside ARC, ZIP, PKA, PAK, ZOO, 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. 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: whereis cde:*.bak "[0-9]" -gt1024 -lt2048 -s12-10-89 -b12-20-89 -v How about 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. 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.... Our rating (1 is low, 10 is great!): 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 � � � � � � � � � � � � � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸