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Re: File_Which What!? [message #32995 is a reply to message #32920]

Thu, 21 November 2002 20:00

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz) writes:

> This would be sensible, *if* FILE_WHICH was to be used only to search for
> .pro or .sav files. There is nothing in the documentation that says this is
> the case, and I (and David) have used it to search for files with other
> extensions. I'm just glad it was David who got tripped up by the hidden
> gotcha. (Not that I'm not sympathetic, David, but...)

Well, maybe there should be an EVERYDARNONE keyword,
to force it to search everything. Now that I think
about it, why would you have files on your path that
you didn't want to search? Maybe I'll revisit this
with my source. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 November 2002 20:28
		Re: File_Which What!? By: rigby on Fri, 22 November 2002 11:16
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:54
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:33
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 06:41
		Re: File_Which What!? By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 20:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 21 November 2002 19:21
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:46
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:39
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 06:04
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 21 November 2002 03:56
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 21 November 2002 00:27
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:40

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