[comp.sys.ibm.pc] MKS Toolkit alleged bug in find

tj@mks.UUCP (08/17/87)

In article <3753@well.UUCP>, hrh@well.UUCP (Harry Henderson) writes:
> I have sent them a bug report though because "find" does not seem
> to work when current directory is root.

The problem in this case appears to be that the DOS find utility
(a sort of fgrep) was in the root directory, and being found by the
PATH search before the Toolkit find command.

The Toolkit coexists easily with all the rest of DOS. This means that
we do not insulate the user from some of MicroSoft's more unfortunate
choices (such as their `find' command).

We may have bugs, but this is not one of them.
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