PROGRAM NAME

  Find 2.1

AUTHOR

  Urban D. Müller    (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)

SYNOPSIS

  Find [VIEW] [IN filename] string

FUNCTION

  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 enter several search strings, separated by blanks, only 
  lines matching all strings will be printed.

  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). Wild cards can't be combined
  with multiple search strings.

  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'.

  Find autodetaches.

EXAMPLES

  Find xpk
  Find xpk IN Aminet
  Find ^xpk*handler IN Aminet_Dir

SEE ALSO

  Inspect