File Finder for Windows "After using File Finder once, I deleted all other pretenders." Earl A. Watt The Computer Power Station "I have several ways that I can search for a file, but File Finder for Windows does it much faster and has the ability to cross drives and even looks into compressed directories - it's great!" Ken L. Walker "Find Files in Windows Just Like on a Mac!" John Sklar, editor Milwaukee Educational Computing Association Newsletter Simian Id Software is an Author Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). See sharewar.txt and ombudsman.txt for more details. Short Description: ------------------ File Finder for Windows is a file search program for Windows 3.1. It searches all drives, archives and network drives. Search on various pattern types, and date, time, and size ranges. Long Description: ----------------- File Finder for Windows is a file-find program for Windows 3.1. It can search all drives, and can search the most popular archive types. (ARC, ARJ, ZIP, ZOO, LBR, LZH, PAK, PKA.) The list of files can be printed or copied to the clipboard. Many other useful features, including printing and copying file lists to other applications. Search for files using a standard DOS search string, a substring, or a "regular expression." Search for files based on date time, or size. You can even launch applications based on filetype. Suggested archive name: ----------------------- WFIND30.ZIP Powerful File Finder for Windows 3.1 Hardware and software requirements: ----------------------------------- Microsoft Windows version 3.1 History: -------- 08/22/94 - Version 3.0: Add File Save features Allow background processing Add Beep When Done option (Mag. Editor suggestion) Add Stop at First File option (Mag. Editor suggestion) Put options in a dialog box Remove Search type list and add File Name Type Radio buttons If no files found, display a message box Format Date,Time,Size by Windows settings Add Windows-selection formatting to output Font bitmaps in Printer setup font list 06/24/94 - Version 2.3: Update timer between archives (User suggestion) Add date and time to search printout (User suggestion) Add 'quickbuttons' (User suggestion) 3-Dimensionalize (Mag. Editor suggestion) Changed Search Archives default to NO 02/26/94 - Version 2.2: Improve disk selection (User suggestion) Added User's name to About Box (User suggestion) Made Dialog boxes smaller (User suggestion) Added Printer Setup to File Menu Improve archive search robustness Use standard windows format WFIND.INI file 08/24/93 - Version 2.1: Regular expression and substring search option Search by date, time and size (with reset button) Double-click to launch instead of single Better keyboard control Fixed "lost focus" problem Better ouput window sizing Renamed to File Finder for Windows CTRL-TAB to flip between output window and main 03/26/93 - Version 2.0a: Position dialog within window Color output window Parts of handle of magnifying glass are transparent and should be grey. International language support 02/03/93 - Version 2.0: Added support for ARJ subdirectories Added option to skip bad archives Better drive/directory selection with start directory for each drive Re-design of interface Display search time Save and Load last settings Solve full-list problem - now list can be as large as memory Fixed bug searching ZIP files with embedded subdirectories Handle embedded subdirectories in all archive types Handle multiple searches Launch applications from output list based on associations 02/08/92 - Version 1.1 -> 11/11/92 - Version 1.7 (Information available upon request) 01/30/92 - Version 1.0 of WFind released Comparison table: ----------------- Product File Find- Filer Fast- Hunter WRU WinFind Name Finder It 1.5 Find 3.0 3.1.1 1.0 3.0 3.1 1.0 Online Excellent Yes Very No Good Good Very Help Limited Limited Archives ARC,ARJ, ARC,ARJ, None None None ARC,ARJ None Supported ZIP,ZOO, ZIP,ZOO, ZIP,ZOO LBR,LZH, LZH (4) PAK,PKA Embedded Yes (2) N/A N/A N/A (3) N/A Subdirs Max. File Limited 1000 2000 2500 Limited Limited 256 Count Only by Only by Only by (Approx.) Virtual Virtual Virtual Memory Memory Memory Relative 13 sec 13 sec 85 sec 31 sec 16 sec 16 sec (failed) Speed (1) 22 sec (failed) (failed) (failed) 34 sec 69 sec (failed) Starting Yes No No No No No No Directories Shows File Yes Yes No No No No No Attributes Save/ Yes No No No Yes Yes No Restore Settings Substring Yes No No No No No No Searches Regular Yes No No No No No No Expression Searches Date/Time/ Yes Yes No No Date& Date& No Size Searches Size Size Launch Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Applications Print List Yes No Yes No No Yes No Copy List Yes Yes No No No Yes No Advanced Yes Yes No No No No No List Process'g International Yes No Partial Yes Partial Partial Yes Language Suppt Registration $20 $15 $0 $9 $15 $29.95 $5.95 (1) The first number is the seconds to find 311 DOC files on a hard drive containing 8091 files. The second number is the length of time to list all 8091 files. These numbers should be used for relative comparison only. (2) Unable to determine if Find-It supports embedded subdirectories, since only registered users get the version which scans archives. (3) WRU lists files in embedded subdirectories, but doesn't indicate that the files are in embedded subdirectories. (4) Corrupted ZOO files cause WRU to fail with a General Protection Fault. Differences between shareware and registered versions of File Finder: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The "beg" screen is removed for registered users. The "beg" line in the printout is removed. User's name is displayed in the About box. Features and Benefits of File Finder: ------------------------------------- - No more lost files! - Searches all of the popular archive types. - Searches on DOS standard filenames, regualr expressions, or substrings. - Searches on date, time or size. - File Finder can generate LONG file lists- about 60,000 on a machine with 8M virtual RAM. Users with more memory can generate longer lists. - File Finder is easy to use- see the testimonials at the beginning of this file. - File Finder has thorough online help. - File Finder can print a file list, copy a list, and save a list to a file. - File Finder has full international language support. - File Finder is the fastest of all the available file search programs. Registration incentives: ------------------------ Current Version Technical support Printed user's manual Elimination of "beg" screen at program start-up Discounts on upgrades Distribution policy: -------------------- Dear Shareware Vendor: Simian Id Software has a simple distribution policy: You have permission to distribute our shareware in its original form as long as you: - Identify it as shareware (with an appropriate definition.) - Leave all intellectual property (copyright) notices intact. .. and as long as we do not request that you stop. That's it. You may archive our programs, unarchive them, include/exclude optional files (like this one), include them with other programs on the same diskette, and do essentially anything you want as long as you follow these simple rules. We want the widest possible distribution, and don't want to stand in your way as long as you are honest with our mutual customer. We suggest that you include all files that are one this diskette, except that you may want to remove this file (vendor.doc).