------------------------------------------------------------------------- HDPATHFINDER.PRG Version IIII 1998 This application is similar to Win95's Find feature. You can locate files wherever they may be. Just enter a search string. And it seeks out files based on that. It may not be just for HD, but CMD drives too I think. You can enter your start and ending partitions for the search, and well, that's pretty obvious. Extra features added to the basic feature set are these. One, you can actually enter two search strings. Please just leave the second one blank. And should you actually wish to save time, and search for two strings at once, you can fill this one in. Note, that the second string is a fixed string, unlike the first. Your main search string will be searched throughout filenames. That second string would need to be a literal 'Match'. Two, you've got a printout option. I believe that I set it something like, so that at the last prompt it gives you (which asks for a basic Y/N answer), you can hit 'P'. This is your printout option. Sends output to printer. Actually, not a full printout like you see on screen. It lists all but actual files. So, it will map out your HD partition and subdirectories pretty well, minus their contents. As a hardcopy. Lesser used options for your searching are pause and abort. Hit A to abort. Hit Space to pause. Lastly, at the end of your search, it says All, Done? A hidden option is 'R'. This will repeat the search, with all the same search parameters. Utility, maybe with floppies. HDpathfinder has a default device setting. To change that, you'd really need to edit the code. Since the program does a thorough search of all files, it can take a while. Thus if you searched for 'p.' it won't be quick. If you wish to sacrifice thoroughness for celerity, try the following slapdash solution. Enter a long dummy first search string. And type 'p.*' for the second search string. This will turn up all files with that prefix. For normal searching though, you will not need to enter wildcards. Sorry that the startup display is clumsy and rather cluttered looking. That's the prices of a few features, more prompts. It's in BASIC. A date stamp search could have been accomplished too. But not without making the startup display turn into spaghetti. If anything does not meet satisfaction, write on the news group 'comp.sys.cbm' and holler. --