* An ongoing debate between Gerald Miller and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

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

Rename it to PKFIND.TGZ ... then please send me a copy. :-)

Note that PKWare has gone commercial and no longer distributes ANY software as
shareware, not even DOS (just timed demos or purchase). No mention of older
Shareware at his site, so I assume existing Shareware release archives are Ok
. Phil Katz (author) passed away not too long ago, so I guess they're not
interested in SysOps anymore. :(

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

Ok, well, I could only find these two on the net (just hatched into UtilNet so
watch for them there). I found a few others, but only these two passed my
scrutiny/testing:

FARC124.ZIP     35k 01/20/04 FArc v1.24 is a FREEware File Finder for DOS
                                   and Windows that also searches Archives.
                                   Options to search all Drives & Sub-dirs,
                                   supports 71 different archive formats, no
                                   external programs needed: 777, ACE, AMG, AR,
                                   ARC, ARG, ARH, ARI, ARJ, ARQ, ARX, ASD, BIX,
                                   BOA, BS2, BSA, CAB, CHZ, DPA, DWC, ELI, GZ,
                                   HA, HYP, ICE, JRC, LHA, LIM, LS, MAR, XIE,
                                   PAK, PHP, ZIP, PP, Q, QFC, RAR, RAX, SQZ,
                                   SWG, SYN, TAR, UFA, ZOO, ZPA, LIB, Z, HAP,
                                   LZO, YC, LZA, BLINK, FINISH, old RAR, SKY,
                                   ZET, SQWEZ, SBX, SAR, AKT, Qurak, xpa, etc.
                                    http://surf.to/phax

PKZF25.ZIP      87k 01/20/04 PKZFIND (tm) File Finder Plus v2.50 (32-bit)
                                   as of March 1st 1999, recursively searches
                                   Sub-dirs and Zip/Exe files for specified
                                   files. Multiple File masks and multiple
                                   Drives supported. Options for searching by
                                   Size (GT/LT/Range) and/or Attributes.
                                   Includes PKZoom v1.5 (16-bit interactive
                                   version). DOS Shareware for Win9x/DOS.

Both work for me under DOS 6.22 and Win98SE, albeit a bit slow ...

Be well,

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