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^Cby
^CKeith Ledbetter

        Is your hard drive a wild jungle of directories and partitions
     where you get lost trying to find a certain sub-directory?  Do your
     fingers tire of trudging through a tangle of directory names and
     back-slashes?  Do you long for a utility program that would allow you
     to move around your hard drive with the ease and speed of Indiana
     Jones?

        Never fear, Big Blue Change Directory (BBCD) is here to help you
     slash through your hard disk jungle.  BBCD is a program designed to
     make changing directories much easier, especially when you have a
     large hard drive with several partitions and lots of different
     directories.

     ^1HOW TO USE BBCD
        Can't remember multi-directory path names?  Don't worry.  With BBCD
     you only have to enter the directory name or part of the directory
     name that you want to change to.  It's as easy as that!  For example,
     suppose you are super-organized and have a path name like

        C:\LETTERS\1991\FAMILY\WILLIAM\

        You could change to this directory instantly by typing ^1BBCD WILLIAM^0
     or ^1BBCD WILL^0.  If you had more than one "William" sub-directory
     (for example, one for 1991, one for 1990, etc.), then BBCD will
     present you with a list of matching directories found.  Use the up and
     down arrows to highlight the desired directory, press ENTER, and BANG,
     you're there.

     ^1SETTING UP BBCD
        The best idea is to use the ^1Copy It^0 option to place BBCD in a
     directory that is in your PATH statement.  (See your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
     or your DOS Manual for help with the PATH statement.)  Once you have
     it there, you can type the BBCD command at any prompt and your system
     will always find it.

        Before you can use this utility, you must create the BBCD Index.
     To do this, simply enter ^1BBCD /SCAN^0 at the DOS prompt.  BBCD will
     scan your hard drive and save the necessary information in the file
     ^1C:\BBCD.IDX^0.

        The great thing about BBCD is that it works across ALL drives on 
     your hard disk.  It maintains the BBCD Index for the entire hard disk 
     in C:\BBCD.IDX, so there's no need to specify a drive letter when 
     trying to change to a directory on the D: or E: drives.

     ^1ADDING AND DELETING DIRECTORIES
        When you want to create or delete directories, use the BBCD command
     before the normal DOS command, and your BBCD Index will be updated
     automatically.

        For example, when creating a new directory, enter ^1BBCD MD NEWDIR^0.
     This creates a directory called NEWDIR and adds it to the BBCD Index.

        When deleting an old directory, enter ^1BBCD RD OLDDIR^0.  This
     removes the directory named OLDDIR from your hard drive and removes it
     from the BBCD Index.  NOTE: A directory must be empty before it can be
     removed.

     ^1SCANNING SPECIFIC DRIVES
        If for some reason you do not want to scan all of your drives, you
     can tell BBCD exactly which drives should be scanned when building the
     BBCD Index.  For example, suppose all your PC tools and utilities are
     on drive C: and all your games and development are on the D: and E:
     drives.  You can make BBCD skip drive C: by typing the following
     command:
                BBCD /scan DE
        Now only drives D: and E: will be scanned.

     ^1DETAILS, DETAILS
        For all of those inquisitive minds out there, below are the steps
     for the matching logic that BBCD uses when searching for the desired
     directory.

        1.  Look for an EXACT match on the directory name specified.
            If more than one found, display the list of directories.
            If none found, go to step 2.

        2.  Look for a "fuzzy" match on the name.  By BBCD's standards,
            a fuzzy match is the name you specified followed by any extra
            data.  For example, if you enter ^1BBCD DATA^0, then all of
            the following would match:

                             C:\DATA1
                             D:\DATABASE
                             F:\DATASET

            If more than one found, display the list of directories.
            If none found, go to step 3.

        3.  At this point, BBCD just looks for the partial string anywhere
            in a path name, preceeded or followed by any characters.

     ^1HELP
        If you forget how to use this utility, just enter ^1BBCD^0 at the
     DOS prompt without any other parameters.  Helpful information
     describing the syntax of using BBCD will be displayed.

     ^1OUTSIDE OF BBD
          To run this program outside the ^1Big Blue Disk^0 menu,
             type  ^1BBCD^0.

          Disk files this program uses:
^F   BBCD.EXE
^FC:\BBCD.IDX
