






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 <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 
(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....












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