Using NDIR on Novell Network to Find Files an

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:48 PM

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Solutions: At times in Customer Support, it is necessary to help a user find a file on a network when the user does not know or cannot remember where it is located. Novell Netware provides NDIR which, if used properly, will allow you to solve this problem without having to use a third party file find utility. The following syntax should be used when searching for a particular file on the network and must be issued only with Novell on any "volume" at the root of any Netware logical drive (e.g., F:\>). NDIR "FILENAME" SUB NDIR will give the operator a lot of needed help when someone is on a network, yet knows nothing of their own network setup (such as where their WP50 directory can be found). NDIR will recognize wild card characters such as an asterisk (*) and will display the filename, byte size, modification date and time, creation date, file flags, and file ownership. For example, a directory on the network with utilities has files which look like this when NDIR is run: G:\INFO\EDITOR>ndir SYS1:INFO/EDITOR File Name Size Last Modified Accessed Created Flags Owner -------------- -------- --------------- -------- -------- --------- ------- CHOP EXE 10107 2-07-89 8:00a 9-05-89 8-29-89 [W-M----] RHONDA CREATE EXE 74193 7-20-89 11:05a 9-06-89 8-29-89 [W-M----] RHONDA INSTDRIV EXE 536 2-07-89 8:00a 9-05-89 8-29-89 [W-M----] RHONDA LOAD EXE 14639 2-07-89 8:00a 9-05-89 8-29-89 [W-M----] RHONDA OPTIMIZE EXE 44791 4-18-89 4:33p 9-05-89 8-29-89 [W-M----] RHONDA WRDPRINT EXE 33559 3-07-89 3:41p 9-06-89 8-29-89 [W-M----] RHONDA Total: 7 files using 365390 bytes Total disk space in use: 380928 bytes (93 blocks) Sub-directories not found This same directory looks like this when DIR is run instead of NDIR: G:\INFO\EDITOR>dir Volume in drive G is SYS1 Directory of G:\INFO\EDITOR OPTIMIZE EXE 44791 4-18-89 4:33p WRDPRINT EXE 33559 3-07-89 3:41p CREATE EXE 74193 7-20-89 11:05a CHOP EXE 10107 2-07-89 8:00a LOAD EXE 14639 2-07-89 8:00a INSTDRIV EXE 536 2-07-89 8:00a 7 File(s) 103763968 bytes free Again, the use of the SUB qualifier with NDIR can be very useful in finding files when the user does not know where they are located. NDIR will only search one Netware volume at a time, so if there are two volumes, NDIR must be executed twice.

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