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The Windows or OS/2 commandline window (Windows "command prompt" or "OS/2 Window") is useful, but not very comfortable. Some simple functions are not part of the default installation. You need some freeware programs to extend the default functionality. The Unix shell is more powerful, but difficult to use for users from the DOS-OS/2-Windows world.

DO replaces a handful of old freeware exe programs which stopped running properly due to integer overflow after the Year 2000.

All archive files are smaller than 1 MB.


DO expects at least one command parameter behind "DO" for selecting the function. To get a command overview, simply type DO without parameters: 



DO 2.00 for OS/2 2005-18 Freeware by Martin Vieregg www.hypermake.com
        available for Windows, OS/2, Mac and Linux
General Syntax: DO COMMAND [SOURCEDIR] [.] [WILDCARD1 WC2...] [TARGETDIR] [COMM
NDS] [SINCE:MM-DD-YY] [ATTRIB:ARSH]
DO DISKFREE D: shows the free disk space of disk D:
DO DISKSIZE D: shows the size of disk D:
DO DISKINFO D: shows free disk space and size of disk D: and ?: show all drives
DO LISTDIR  lists all directories
DO SIZE D:\MYDIR  shows the size of all files in the directory (with subdirs)
DO TREE     shows a directory tree
DO LIST     shows full file name of all files
DO LISTSIZE shows full file name and size of all files, LISTSIZEDATE plus date
DO TYPE *.TXT prints all *.TXT files to stdout (with subdirs)
DO SEARCH String1 AND String2  search strings. (operators: AND OR ANDNOT)
DO SEARCHLIST writes only the filename, not the occurences of the string
DO LOWERCASE, UPPERCASE, CAPITAL renames files: file.txt, FILE.TXT, File.txt
DO TIME:HH.MM changes the file time, but remains the file date
DO DATE:MM-DD-YY or DATE:DD.MM.YY changes the file date, but remains time
DO WHICH PROGRAMNAME  shows full filename of progs which will be executed
DO WAIT n   waits for n seconds;  DO WAIT hh:mm   waits for daytime
DO WAITFORDRIVE D: waits for availability of drive D: (floppy or CD-ROM)
DO DELETE    deletes all files. Test with DO LIST!  BE CAREFUL !!!!
For most commands, you can type wildcard filenames. A single dot omits subdirs.

In 1.99/2.00, a very powerful COPY functionality has been added, with progress bar in the commandline and with the ability to split files larger than 4 GB (because of the limitation of FAT32 drives). Then a sort functionality has been added where you can list your files alphabetically, by size or date over the whole disk.

You will find a more detailed description of the functionality Readme.txt in the archive file.

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