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Re: Whereis.com
- Subject: Re: Whereis.com
- From: Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:04:36 -0800 (PST)
" Boy, that's fast! Compared with Windows Find, anyway.
"
Still, Magellan of lamented DOS Lotus fame,
would find and weight relevant files by content,
indexed as you wished.
And it had an XY3 viewer to read XYfiles as the
screen appearance.
Daniel Say
say@xxxxxxxx
" At 01:13 AM 12/15/00 -0500, Harry Binswanger wrote:
"
" >Okay, one more thing--and this is the last, I promise. I couldn't live
" >without the 418 byte (not kilobyte or megabyte or gigabyte--just byte)
" >program "WHEREIS.COM" to find files on my harddrive. I have shortened the
" >name to WHERE.COM and am attaching it to this email. (It is NOT a virus--I
" >doubt it could be at only 418 bytes.) Example of usage:
" >
" >C:>where ed*.*
" >
" >That will locate your editor.exe and any other file beginning with "ed."
" >It's fast and clean. Put it in any directory on your PATH (e.g., the root
" >directory) and enjoy.
And in SIMTEL are:
< Linkname: DOS
URL: http://www.simtel.net/simcgi-bin/dosfind.cgi >
MS-DOS Collection
Result of search for: whereis
Filename Date Size Description
============= ======== ===== ==============================================
[2]tf77.zip 19890218 13K TurboFind - fast 'whereis' file find utility
[3]where282.zip 19960406 15K Whereis v2.82: Find and catalog on hard disk
[4]whereis.asm 19851024 10K Locate file on hard drive
[5]whereis.doc 19851026 657 Doc for WHEREIS.ASM
[6]whereis.zip 19880513 20K Finds any file on drive and uses wildcards
[7]whereis3.zip 19890607 7K Whereis file locator across multiple disks
[8]which_mc.zip 19880427 8K Cohen's fast WHEREIS for commands in PATH
[9]v9n09.zip 19900403 48K PCMag: GETPUTEA,POP/PUSHPATH,SETEA,WHEREIS,PAN
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* [4]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/tf77.zip
* [5]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/where282.zip
* [6]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/whereis.asm
* [7]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/whereis.doc
* [8]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/whereis.zip
* [9]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/whereis3.zip
* [10]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/dirutl/which_mc.zip
* [11]http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/pcmag/v9n09.zip
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