Re: Off topic... but may be of interest.

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- "Patricia M. Godfrey"  wrote:

> looking for is a program that
> 1. Has a logical, well-organized user interface,
> such as W9x's
> Find had.
> 2. Does indeed find all the files that match the
> spec (as neither
> Find nor Search does).
> 3. Not merely gives you a scrollable, sortable
> display, but lets
> you print it or save it to a file. I'll look at
> what's been
> suggested, but I'm not sanguine.


This is just a shot in the dark, but I recall using FF
-- File Finder, from the Norton Utilities set -- for
many years. It went through several versions, and I
don't know if it ever went from command line to GUI,
or if that set is still around. Nowadays I do most of
my searches inside my file manager, ZTree, which is
still around on both of the platforms I run.  It has
ways to filter down a search (such as date screens for
dates-greater-than or earlier-than, and wildcards),
until you get what you were after, and it can see
*every* file on the system -- none of that hidden or
locked files in use baloney. But I'm not sure about
(all) the other features you specified.

The opsys built-in Finder we have in eCS is apparently
free of the issues that plague you in the Win-32 one,
but it does have its own annoying quirk: it works in a
poorly shaped rectangular box that is clumsy to use,
whether in its normal size or even if you take it full
screen.


 Jordan