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From: stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 4DOS, does it have a "whereis" command?
Message-ID: <2903@phred.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 00:50:21 GMT
Reply-To: stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach)
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Organization: Physio-Control
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In article <1989Dec13.173757.11327@uncecs.edu>
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$I Have started to use 4DOS instead of COMMAND.COM and like 4DOS very
$much. However, I have been able to find a string search (FIND) function
$but have not found a file search/locator function, similar to a
$WHEREIS.COM. Am I missing something, or does no version of 4DOS
$have this yet?

You might try  CHKDSK /V | FIND "filename"  where filename is in capital
letters.  This is fairly quick and produces a clean output.  One note
however is that if there is any lost clusters your machine will appear to
hang, but fear not a control C (^C) will regain the prompt to correct
this problem just do a CHKDSK /F.  Let me know if this helps.  I set
up an alias, alias lo*cate `CHKDSK /V | FIND "%1"`.

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