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

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