Re: WHEREIS

[jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

yesss@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>     I couldn't live without the 418 byte [...]
>     program "WHEREIS.COM" to find files on my
>     harddrive.
>
> What am I missing, Harry?
>
> As far as I can tell, find does the same thing as WHERE
> but better. Same results, but find does it within xyW,
> provides sizes and dates, and leaves a call command on
> the CMline. (I *must* have missed something about WHERE.)

This presumes that one is running XY almost all the time, if not actually as
a system "shell" (which some have done). XY and my file mgr. app. (ZTree
Bold, a much improved clone of the old XTree) are a couple things that tend
to always be running for me, but then I typically have 8 or 9 things
running, because OS/2 is so stable and multi-tasks extremely well. I would
not recommend anyone try that with W95/98, or even NT.

You're quite right about Xy's FIND, though. It does everything an old
favorite, FF from the Norton set (much better than the freeware DOS util.s
did), and more. The desktop Finder included with your o.s., whatever it is,
will be just fair at best. I don't think much of any of the Windows ones.
The Finder in OS/2 is better, but who wants to open a found file in the
default EPM editor ? I suppose I could change the file association easily
enough, but why bother, when an already running XY or ZTree is just a hotkey
away ? If it's not a text file being sought, though, I just want to quickly
find out what drive it's on, where and how many levels deep. For that, the
desktop Finder will usually do.

Jordan