From:	skerr AT herma DOT ucsd DOT edu (Dr. Stephen S. Kerr)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	HELP! 'find' doesn't work
Date:	1 Feb 1999 23:51:35 GMT
Organization:	University of California, San Diego
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Summary:	'find' utility in DJGPP dist. not working
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Rcently I downloaded DJGPP v2 and some related utilities from the
v2gnu directory.  I have been trying to get the Gnu 'findutils'
version 4.1 to work, particularly the 'find' command.  I am running
MSDOS 6.2 on a 486 with 16 Mb of RAM.  CWSDPMI r4 is running.

Whenever I try to run 'find' with even the simplest of command-line
arguments, I get messages such as this:

C:\ find c:\ -name ls.exe -print
FIND: Parameter format not correct

C:\ find c:/ -name ls.exe -print
FIND: Invalid switch

Trying various paths and argument formats (e.g., -iname) doesn't
seem to help.  I have other things working, such as gcc, info, the
file utilites and emacs.  Can anyone tell me what's going wrong?

-- Stephen S. Kerr

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