Hello BEN,

    Responding to a post in the BATPOWER area:
    On Saturday January 17 2004 at 16:49,
    BEN RITCHEY [1:393/68] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: Re: looking for ...

 GM: >> I have 1,436 ZIP archives to search through trying to see which
 GM: >> archive _may_ contain any one of 14 specific files....
 GM: >> I'm looking for a utility that will permit a search of an
 GM: >> archive (or group of archives) for a file.
 BR> Interesting problem, but something I've never needed or done, sorry. I
 BR> did find one program in BFDS named AU202.ZIP (Archive Utility) that
 BR> may do what you want. Also in UTILNET I have DLXDR281.ZIP (Deluxe Dir)
 BR> that states it can search for files within multiple archive formats
 BR> (seems best bet).

Regarding AU202.ZIP:

        Now watch as all the archives are converted to your favorite
        compressor!  This program finds them all: PAK ZIP HAP SQZ LZH
        plus tons more, then converts them to your 'favorite' archiver.

It's not what I'm looking for...  :-(((

 GM: >> Can you or anyone else point me to the proper tool?
 BR> Probably someone else, but I would try out Deluxe Dir first. :-)

I also have DLXDR281.ZIP.

Deluxe Dir turns out to be an interactive display program...  When I have
almost 1500 archives to search through, I'm not about ready to spend time
going through all those archives; sorry.

I was on the web looking for an updated DOS version of PKFIND...  I found a
lot of sites that have PKFIND.TAR.GZ!  Any idea what these might be?  I
tried putting one of these archives on my DOS box and poor 'puter had a
nervous breakdown - couldn't deal with multiple file extensions... ???

I really require a command-line utility that can handle multiple file lists
and possibly redirect the output to a file....

I'll try something different...

  for %%Z in ({at}zip.lst) do pkunzip -e %%Z {at}find.lst G:\Tmp

and see what that will get me.  Thanks for you help, so far...  ;-))

           Cheers ... Gerald

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