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Quick Find 1.5 - (C) 1989 by Ignac A. Kolenko and Darek Mihocka
Quick Find runs on any ST, color or mono, with TOS in ROM.
It is a program developed for locating files. Although it may usually
suffice to open a window from the ST's desktop, this does not allow for
search masks in the directory listing. Quick Find allows any number of
drives to be searched, producing output which can be printed to screen,
printer or file. Thus, it can also double as a disk cataloger. Quick Find
is an outgrowth of our earlier WHERE.PRG, which was similar to the popular
PD program WHERE.COM in MSDOS.
To use Quick Find, double click on the file QUIKFIND.PRG. A dialog box will
appear, and the screen colors will change to white, black, red and green
(on a color monitor only!). Enter your search mask in the edit field,
select the drives you wish to search, and click on "Execute" to begin. It's
that simple. Each line of output consists of the attribute bits of the file
(attribute string is 'avsrw': a = archived file, v = volume label,
s = system file, r = readable file, and w = writable file. A '-' indicates
this bit is not set in the attribute for that file), the length, date and
time stamp, and the path to the file.
A new feature added to Quick Find is the Options Box. This box is located
below the drive selectors, and is defaulted to File Info. This is the only
option that was available in previous versions of Quick Find. If you click
on the Options Box, you will be presented with a new dialog box, where you
can choose options which will apply globally to all the files found in the
file search once you press Execute on the main menu dialog box. These are
the options available to users of Quick Find 1.5:
- File Info -> described above
- Touch -> update the date and time stamp of the files found to the current
date and time of your machine
- Hide -> set the hide attribute for each file found (hidden from desktop)
- Unhide -> reset the hide attribute for each file found (can view from
desktop)
- WP -> write protect each file found (same as the write protect option on
the desktop)
- UnWP -> un-write protect each file found (reverse of above)
- Delete -> delete all files found. This option lets you clean your entire
hard disk of those pesky *.BAK files which usually gather over
a few months of text editing and programming! (obviously, this
option should be used with CAUTION! We are NOT responsible for
any files lost through this option.)
- 'Arc' -> set the archive bit on all files found. Useful for doing disk
backups, which check the archive bit for files that have already
been backed up previously. By using this option, you can tell
such a backup utility not to back up the found files.
The typical output for, say the Hide option is:
Hiding: C:\DESKTOP.INF
If, for some reason, the above options could not be performed, beside
the filename, an indication will be given that a problem occured. For the
above example:
Hiding: C:\DESKTOP.INF -> Cannot Hide!!
Reasons for problems may include trying to touch or delete a write
protected file, etc.
If you wish, you can change the output device from the default CON:
to PRN: (printer), or select a file to save the output to. When you
do a search with FILE selected, a standard file selector will appear,
propting you to pick an output file. When viewing on the screen, pressing
CTRL-S will stop the output, CTRL-Q will start it up again.
Help, Info and Exit, obviously, do as expected.
An important notice to hard drive users: due to the 40 folder bug in TOS,
be careful of how many times searches are done. Use a folder fix program
at all times (it saves much heartache).
Well, that's about all I can say about this utility, except, USE
IT. Now, you'll never, ever again have to kick yourself, wondering
where you last created a file. And if you're a hard drive user, by
cataloging the entire hard disk, you'll probably realize quickly
that you're disk is in need of clean-up (depending on the editor,
you may have a million .BAK files!) The only bad thing about a
utility like this is that if you loose it, it'll never be able to
find itself ...
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Pay for shareware and receive updates!
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At this time, we would like to receive some user feedback before we go
ahead and implement any new features. Currently, Quick Find 2.0 will be a
self-configuring program, capable of running either as an accessory
OR as a program. (as most of the Quick family updates will!) This will be
available only to registered users. (See below)
We'd like to hear ideas on how to turn Quick Find into a full blown
disk cataloger and possible disk backup system. Remember, the more you ask
for, the more you get (at least in theory!)
Also Available:
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Quick View (fast text viewing utility)
Quick Print (fast text only screen dump of VT52 screens)
Quick Inf (desktop information editor)
Quick Index (the de-facto benchmark for the ST family)
Quick ST (fast VT52, and faster GEM)
Registered users will receive ALL the above utilities. To become a
registered user, send a $30 (or if you wish ONLY Quick ST, $20) by check
or money order to:
Darek Mihocka
Box 2624, Station B
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6N2
Canada
You can reach us by modem on the following networks:
Darek Mihocka:
Compuserve: 73657,2714
BIX, Delphi, GEnie: DAREKM
Ignac Kolenko:
Usenet: watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
Both of us:
Usenet: watmath!watcgl!oaee455s
We thank you for supporting shareware and encourage you to support other
shareware authors. You may distribute copies of Quick Find under the
condition that you also include this documentation file. You may
not charge a fee or in any way try to sell this software.