Hello Paul,

    Responding to a post in the BATPOWER area:
    On Sunday January 18 2004 at 23:05,
    Paul Quinn [3:640/384] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: 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 archive
 GM>> (or group of archives) for a file.
 PQ> Why not make the task a little harder: only those archives (selected
 PQ> using a right mouse click, or a filemask select, or, for any archives
 PQ> on all/selected drives) containing files with a specific filemask, say
 PQ> *.dat, and of those only those containing a string, say "Hi!
Gerry",
 PQ> in them?

Funny that you should pop up in here...  I'm trying to locate (on my DOS
box with no Windoooz) 14 of the files that I gleaned from your eleven TXT
files.  So, the procedure that you outlined above is not an option (at the
present).

I'm going to try:

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

where ZIP.LST contains the fully qualified pathnames of the 1,436 ZIP
archives to search through and FIND.LST contains a list of the 14 files
that I'm trying to locate (each list contains one name per line).

Do you know of a way that I can do multiple FOR commands?  For instance,
if I could assign a variable to each line in the FIND.LST, then I could
redirect the output of PKUNZIP to a file...

  set find={at}find.lst
  for %%Z in ({at}zip.lst) do C:\Pkw\pkunzip -e %%Z %find G:\Tmp>>%find%.rpt

(it can probably be accomplished in 4DOS, but it's currently beyond me.)

 PQ> I use a doo-hickey here that can do that.  But it ain't DOS though it
 PQ> will run on your shiny new Win98 PC.  It's called Total Commander and
 PQ> can be got from:
 PQ>   http://www.ghisler.com/

I know about TCMD.  I'm already running it on the XP box and I put a copy
of it on my "shiny new Win98 PC."

Regarding the Win98SE installation on the "other box"...  I've been advised
(thanks Ben) against making the boot partition a FAT-32 drive - it's prone
to crashes.  Silly me, I formatted the 10Gig drive as one large drive with
FAT-32.

Later today (before I trash W98SE and start over), I will investigate the
W98SE Startup diskette to see if it has all the tools that I need (or might
need).  Then, it's the Startup diskette, and FDISK.  Create a primary
partition 1,000 MB with FAT-16, a couple of 2,000 MB (with FAT-16) logical
drives, and anything remaining can be FAT-32...

 PQ> BTW, I lost your netmail where you spoke about the Norton Commander
 PQ> due to another glitch in the message area.  :(

I'll look for the netmail message and resend it if it is "critical"...

 PQ> I still have a copy of NC here, and it will work with large capacity
 PQ> drives; it reports the correct free space but can't indicate the
 PQ> actual size of the drive.

That is what I found, also.  So, I have to ignore the actual drive size;
pity.

I've still have my original NC v1.0 floppy; the last version that I was
able to get was Version 4.0 - 8 June 1993 (what I use constantly on the DOS
box).

There was a development team in Germany that were working on the beta of
Version 5.0, but it never saw a public release (as far as I know) and as
hard as I tried, I could never locate it...

 PQ> That's where TC (above) comes in.  TC is a direct replacement for NC,
 PQ> with a *lot* of extras.

I like TC too.  I would like it a lot better if the developer(s) had
provided an option of using third party tools for some of the built-in
tools; for instance, I found the built-in FTP to be rather "clunky" and
would have preferred an option of using a third party program, say,
SmartFTP or some such, but that's just me...

           Cheers ... Gerald

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