Re: Re. Locate32

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

>  I retract what I said in my earlier post. It is a bit more complicated
>  a programme than it need be, but it works reasonably well.
>
>  Sorry Harry for doubting your advice.
No problem. BTW, It occurs to me that you can even do all this in DOS. I
think using XCOPY with appropriate switches would do it. It is pretty easy
if you are not trying to search your whole disk. Try this:

xcopy c:\yourdirectory /L /d:05-23-2008 c:\dummydirectory
For "yourdirectory" substitute the name of the directory you want searched
and for "dummydirectory" substitute any other directory name. The thing is,
it won't actually copy, because of the /L switch. So it tells you what it
finds that is eligible to copy.
You can have it search subdirectories (by adding the /S switch), but it can
create difficulties: if "dummydirectory" is one of the included
subdirectories, it reports a circularity issue. So if you want to search
your *whole* drive this way, you need to have another drive that it can
pretend to copy to.

On the whole, LOCATE32 is easier.





Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx