BIG AL'S NORTON UTIL TECH TIPS VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1 (ALSNUTT1) (C) Copyright 1990 by Al Hansen All Rights Reserved This first issue of ALSNUTT is issued to the Public Domain and may be freely copied and distributed as long as the above copyright notice remains intact. If you wish to comment on this volume or add to future issues please do so. You may contact me via Exec-PC the home of ALSNUTT at 414/789-4210. I'm in the Exec-PC Message. (Exec-PC Main Menu chain command ;M;I;B;S;;ALSNUTT ) NU 5.0 FILEFIND TIP Are you tired of FILEFIND searching each matching file on your disk for a text string when all you really wanted was to limit the seach to the matching files in the directory you were in at the moment? If you can't always remember the command line switches here's a simple little batch file called LF.BAT (for 'local find'): FF .\%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ;For example: LF yourtext Place it in your path. Simple and more intuitive than remembering to type ".\*.*" or "/C". SYSTEM SHUT-DOWN TIP Here's another slick little batch file that will give your hard disk a quick once over and defrag it before you shut-down for the day. As an option you could add a disk park program of your choice. QUIT.BAT NDD C: /QUICK ;Norton Disk Doctor /QUICK=just test system area SD C: /U /A /V ;Speed Disk /U=update /A=all /V=volume PARK ;Use any 'park' utility on hard disk ;shut power off If you have multiple partitions on your hard disk be sure to add the same commands for each drive. NORTON COMMANDER 3.0 ZIP VIEWER Norton Commander 3.0 has the capabilty to view many major file formats except .ZIP files. Future versions are rumoured to have this capability. For now you could try the following: 1. Edit (or create) your NC.EXT file to include: ZIP: PKUNZIP -V !.! ;allows you to 'view' the contents 2. Park your cursor on the zip file and press Enter 3. Use the NC command CTRL-E to actually unzip the file after 'viewing' edit out the '-V' option and press Enter again to unzip ALSNUTT by Al Hansen Exec-PC 1/1/91