Re: Search recent

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

If your file names contain any indication of their dates, it's easy
enough using the wildcard characters within XyW. For example, I export my
mail from the list to text files with the names like 220711.txt (for the
digest of 7/11/2002. So if I wanted to search though, say, all this
month's and last's, I'd day "SE e:2207??.* /wanted text/" and then the
same for 2206??.txt.
	If you haven't followed such a naming convention, and ff the files are
XyWrite and so ASCII, Windows Find function (Start-->Find) should do it.
Just set the date parameter to within the last month or so. Or you could
also do this: From the Windows desktop, open My Computer and navigate to
the directory in question. Create a subdirectory and call it, say,
Recent; open it, then shrink it so it doesn't take up the whole desktop.
Go back to the higher directory, click on View, then Arrange Icons, then
by date. That will put all your most recent ones at the top of the
listing. Click the first, then hold down CTRL and click all the others
with sufficiently recent dates; then, with the RIGHT mouse button
depressed, drag them to the RECENT folder. When asked what to do, choose
MOVE. Then open XyWrite, change directory to the subdirectory RECENt, and
issue your search command on e:\whatever\recent\*.*.
	You can do this from the DOS prompt too, if you're a real diehard:
MKDIR e:\whatever\recent
xcopy e:\whatever\*.* e:\whatever\recent /D:MM-DD-YY.
Unfortunately, that leaves you with two copies of each file. There is a
MOVE command, but it apparently doesn't permit the date parameter the way
XCOPY does. Dragging and dropping files is one of the few instances when
the GUI can be useful.
Patricia