Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/18/01:10:10
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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