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Message-ID: <332E2C45.4934@ibm.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:46:45 -0600
From: Jeff Harlow <jharlow AT ibm DOT net>
Reply-To: jharlow AT ibm DOT net
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To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] FSSTND
References: <199703132128 DOT WAA18063 AT magigimmix DOT xs4all DOT nl>
<332B8679 DOT 76EA AT ibm DOT net> <19970316 DOT 130737 DOT 4935 DOT 0 DOT chambersb AT juno DOT com>

Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 15 Mar 1997 23:34:49 -0600 Jeff Harlow <jharlow AT ibm DOT net> writes:
> >Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:09:34 -0600 Jeff Harlow <jharlow AT ibm DOT net>
> >writes:
> >> >Try dir c:\pkunzip.* /s to find all occurrences on drive C:
> >>
> >> That'll search for c:\pkunzip.exe in every subdirectory, which is
> >not
> >> what's wanted.  Try:
> >
> >You might be right.  The person wrote they were looking for PKUNZIP
> >but
> >may have meant PKZIP or something else.
> Not what I meant - I was worried about having the c:\ in there, but I
> just tried it and dir strips the path and just uses the filename.

The c:\ tells dir /s to start the search in the root directory of drive
C:.  Otherwise, the search starts in the current subdirectory of the
current drive, which for me is usually someplace else.
 
> >> dir pk*.exe /s
> >> to find al pkutils (pk(un)zip).
> >
> >Doesn't find PKUNZJR.COM on my computer; I know it's there somewhere.
> >:)
> 
> Then use .* instead of .exe :)

Thank you!  I knew it was in there somewhere.  :)

Jeff Harlow


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