DFL v2.61 William Ataras                 Registration $ 35.00
UTIL DEC90 ATARAS DUPLICATE FILE FINDER LOCATOR
FILES: dfl-261.sdn

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The  DUPLICATE FILE LOCATOR (DFL) program is used to  locate 
all duplicate files which are on one or more disk drives  of 
any  size.  There are two modes of operation.  The  first  - 
NAME MODE - searches for dups like any other similar program 
does.  It looks for files with matching names.  The  program 
begins  by  building an internal list of all  files  on  the 
disks, along with path information.  DFL then sorts the list 
alphabetically.   Files with the same name will be  adjacent 
when this is done.  DFL then puts up the list of all  dupli-
cates in a screen window.

The second mode - ALIAS MODE - is unique with DFL.  In  this 
mode,  the  internal list is built and then sorted  by  file 
size.   In this way, files of the same length will be  adja-
cent  in the internal list.  Then DFL compares the  data  in 
files of the same length.  In this way, files with the  same 
information,  regardless of the names, will be  reported  in 
the screen window.

After DFL has built the list of duplicates and displayed  it 
in  the window, the user can view the files, write the  list 
to a file, compare files, or delete one or more files.   All 
of these functions are explained in the on-line help system.  
Just  press F1 whenever DFL is waiting for user input and  a 
large  help window opens.  You can scroll through  the  help 
window to find whatever information you are seeking.

This  version has two features not present in  earlier  ver-
sions:

1.  All of the hard disks in the system can be processed  at 
the same time.  This allows users with multiple drives or  a 
LAN manager to examine their entire systems.

2. The display screen was completely revised to enhance  the 
appearance of the display.

DFL  was written because I found no acceptable  programs  on 
any of the BBSs I tried.  While there were similar programs, 
some  had bugs, others ran out of memory when processing  my 
330 Meg drive, none had a file view feature, and none had an 
ALIAS mode.  DFL is the solution to all of these problems.


Hardware Requirements: DOS 3.0 or later

System Requirements:  256K, more may be needed if the disk
                      has a very large number of files and
                      sub-directories and one or more hard
                      disks.


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