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From: Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Find
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Date: 17 Dec 90 19:49:42 GMT
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Allan Balliett asks:
"Hey--I have a customer who wants to put several similar stacks into a
folder and then be able to search then ALL with one FIND command (with
RETURN initiating FIND AGAIN)  For some reason this is drawing a blank
for me:
A. IS there some way to get a list of stack within the folder and create
a list of stacks to search EACH time a FIND is issued?"
 
Offhand guess. You'll want to lay your hands on something like F. 
Rinaldi's FileList XCMD (here on the Clone, and I'm sure many FTP 
sites). Use that to find out the names of the stacks in the folder then 
do something like:
 find "blah blah" in this stack
 if the result is "Not Found" then go stack 'first in list you just got'
 find "blah blah" in this stack
 if the result is "Not Found" then go stack "next in list'
 ....
You can turn that into a nice loop probably and also make the finds 
"find "blah" in stack 'nth in list'". It'll be slow though with all the 
stack switching. Also, lock the screen until you find something or reach 
the end of the stacks THEN unlock it. Also, you'll want to set Lock 
Messages to True during the search so that when you switch stacks the 
OpenStack handlers aren't executed.


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