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1.1     ! root        1: LIBWHERE searches along LIBPATH for filenames matching the specification on
        !             2: the command line.
        !             3: 
        !             4: If LIBPATH were an environment variable, the WHERE utility could be used to
        !             5: search along it for the desired files. Since this is not the case, LIBWHERE
        !             6: must look in the appropriate CONFIG.SYS file and extract the path following
        !             7: the string "libpath=". LIBWHERE then creates an environment variable with
        !             8: this path and invokes WHERE to search along it.
        !             9: 
        !            10: The path is easy to find in protect mode, since OS/2 knows which is the boot
        !            11: device and can look in the root directory for CONFIG.OS2 or CONFIG.SYS.  If
        !            12: LIBWHERE is run in real mode or if you wish to examine a different CONFIG.
        !            13: SYS, you must specify which CONFIG.SYS you wish to use with the /c switch.
        !            14: 
        !            15: Informative messages are sent to STDERR, while the list of filenames is sent
        !            16: to STDOUT.  This means that the list of filenames can be redirected to other
        !            17: programs which take a list of filenames from STDIN (eg. EXEHDR).
        !            18: 
        !            19: Examples:
        !            20: 
        !            21: LIBWHERE *.dll
        !            22: 
        !            23:     Works in protect mode to find all filenames with a .dll extension in the
        !            24:     directories listed in the LIBPATH set in the CONFIG.SYS file in the root
        !            25:     directory of the boot device.
        !            26: 
        !            27: LIBWHERE *.dll | EXEHDR -
        !            28: 
        !            29:     Finds the files *.dll as in the previous example and feeds them to EXEHDR
        !            30:     for analysis.
        !            31: 
        !            32: LIBWHERE /c c:\config.sys *.dll
        !            33: 
        !            34:     In either protect or real mode, find all filenames with a .dll extension
        !            35:     in the directories listed in the LIBPATH set in c:\config.sys.

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