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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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