>> According to the 4DOS 'copy' instructions, it does support it: >> >> 4DOS Help Topic: COPY >> /I"text": Select source files by matching text in their >> descriptions. The text can include wildcards and extended >> wildcards. The search text must be enclosed in quotation marks, >> and must follow the /I immediately, with no intervening spaces. >> You can select all filenames that have a description with >> /I"[?]*", or all filenames that do not have a description with >> /I"[]".
> Quite cool :-) What other fun stuff can it do with descriptions? The /I option is available in the following commands (and possibly others) for basically the same purpose as in "copy": ATTRIB DEL DESCRIBE DIR DO FFIND FOR HEAD MOVE REN SELECT TAIL In at least one case "/I" is invaluable for me: to find photographs of a given person or place. I already had the habit of giving a 4DOS description to all my pictures. So I wrote a batch file that uses FFIND to search for the desired keyword in the descriptions, and writes a list of the filenames. Works really well! Regards, Marcos -------------------------------------- Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros Campinas, Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
