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At 10:08 PM 6/16/2002 +1200, you wrote:
>Hey Don, I appreciate that info about the DIR command. I'm always doing DOS
>directory searches, and it's a pain in the butt to keep typing in the /on /p
>bit.
>
>Does that old grey matter remember if there's a 'FIND' facility in DOS?
>
>Ian Porter
You can add the set dircmd command to your autoexec.bat. The DOS FIND
command doesn't actually search for a particular file, but searches for
strings within a specified file.
Ian Carmichael
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