Re: FIND won't work with XY4 and XYWin

["Paul Breeze" paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

I've tried this, too, and under these conditions, FIND does complete.
However my guess, looking at the result, is that it is just searching the
first level of directories below the root. Perhaps there is the germ of
some workaround here?

Paul Breeze

----- Original Message -----
From: John Cumming 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: FIND won't work with XY4 and XYWin


> I have had the same experience with XyWin running under Windows 98 on a
Toshiba
> Satellite 2595CDS. On the other hand, I don't have this problem with
XyWin
> running under Windows 98 on my custom desktop PC; nor did I have the
problem
> with XyWin running under Windows 95 on either my older Satellite or older
custom
> PC.
>
> I have found that if I put a backslash "\" before the filename [Find
\jones.*]
> that my Satellite will perform the function without hanging up and will
return a
> list of files -- although when I started doing this it was not always a
complete
> list; and I'm not sure I get a complete list now.
>
> I have no explanation for why any of the above is so.
>
>   John Cumming
>
>
>