which in DOS - would lightning-quick, find a file anywhere on the drive; use wildcards to taste IIRC. Somewhere I have it around (not that I know how it would handle long filenames - nor that it applies to your query). Didn't need to serially parse directory structure.

It seemed to illustrate an untapped peculiarity of (?) perhaps the way attribs are dealt with in the lowest DOS er procedures..


A.