Subj : Re: List *.*
To   : meirman
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Mar 12 2002 07:05 am

From: Jasen.Betts@p42.f531.n640.z3.cereal.mv.com (Jasen Betts)
Subject: Re: List *.*

Hi meirman.

10-Mar-02 02:59:58, meirman wrote to Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.f


 m> From: meirman <meirman@invalid.com>

 m> In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Sat, 09 Mar 2002 00:02:46 GMT
 m> Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.fidonet.org posted

 m> >Hi meirman. > >06-Mar-02 03:36:18, meirman wrote to All > >
 m>> From: meirman <meirman@invalid.com>
 m> >
 m>> I love list *.* and list *.txt .
 m> >
 m>> Is there any way I could start at the beginning of a partition or
 m>> high-level directory and List *.txt all the way through it and all
 m>> the subdirectories? Whenever I found something interesting, I coul
 m>> use the "I" command to see where I was at the time.
 m> > >global list *.txt > >it can be trick to quit though.

 m> With the second command I tried, I think I noticed that.  I think I
 m> went back to windows, and used task manager or in win98
 m> cntl-alt-delete.  It was iirc only a list command.  Have to use the
 m> /I parm for errors caused by directories that have no file that
 m> meets the description

 m> OToh, I was able to quickly go through a 1 gig partition checking
 m> all the .inf,
..txt, .diz, and .ini files (in three steps). I didn't have to read the file,
 m> just verify that it was legible text.  The disgusting program
 m> AutoSave by V-com had clobbered 210 megs in one 1 gig partition. In
 m> another partition, the directory entries and file lengths were
 m> still there and looked reasonable, but I kept finding exe files
 m> that were corrupt.  I think in most of these cases the nearby text
 m> files were also garbled, so this helped me look for directories
 m> that are screwed up

 m> There are still some I haven't found because I shortened the file
 m> names to 8 letters.  Does anyone recognize what freeware or
 m> shareware these programs might have been if I hadn't contracted
 m> their names to 8 letters:

corectif.exe   <something to fix a bug in the tiff compression DLL?>
hdcachms.exe   hard drive cache <something>
viewwini       view windows ini
uninstcl       uninstall <something>
ttwk160s       turbo-tweak 1.60 shareware
taskster       looks like a complete name to me
boostme        boost memory ?

 M> Don't knock yourself out lookin for them,

I haven't. those names are just wild guesses.

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