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Microsoft OS/2 SDK 03-01-1988

LIBWHERE searches along LIBPATH for filenames matching the specification on
the command line.

If LIBPATH were an environment variable, the WHERE utility could be used to
search along it for the desired files.	Since this is not the case, LIBWHERE
must look in the appropriate CONFIG.SYS file and extract the path following
the string "libpath=". LIBWHERE then creates an environment variable with
this path and invokes WHERE to search along it.

The path is easy to find in protect mode, since OS/2 knows which is the boot
device and can look in the root directory for CONFIG.OS2 or CONFIG.SYS.  If
LIBWHERE is run in real mode or if you wish to examine a different CONFIG.
SYS, you must specify which CONFIG.SYS you wish to use with the /c switch.

Informative messages are sent to STDERR, while the list of filenames is sent
to STDOUT.  This means that the list of filenames can be redirected to other
programs which take a list of filenames from STDIN (eg. EXEHDR).

Examples:

LIBWHERE *.dll

    Works in protect mode to find all filenames with a .dll extension in the
    directories listed in the LIBPATH set in the CONFIG.SYS file in the root
    directory of the boot device.

LIBWHERE *.dll | EXEHDR -

    Finds the files *.dll as in the previous example and feeds them to EXEHDR
    for analysis.

LIBWHERE /c c:\config.sys *.dll

    In either protect or real mode, find all filenames with a .dll extension
    in the directories listed in the LIBPATH set in c:\config.sys.

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