                            ShowExts
                  See file extensions in a new way
               Copyright (C) 1994-1997, Sanjay Kanade
                       All rights Reserved.
                    
A command line utility for Windows 95, DOS and Windows NT.  Get a big
picture of the extensions present in a directory and its
subdirectories. Ever wished for a command line utility that can
quickly show you the various extensions present in a directory?
ShowExts can help you do that and more. It can also show you
disk-space occupied by these extensions. A real help if you want to
keep your disk space under control. For example, you can see how much
space is eaten by backup files .BAK on your disk.

BASIC TIPS ON THE PROGRAM USAGE:

Copy SHOWEXTS.EXE to a directory on your path so that you can use it
from anywhere. Also, it's better to rename it to SE.EXE so that you
can quickly type 'se' in place of 'showexts'.

Just type "Showexts ?" to get the basic tips on the usage of the
program. This is a unique utility which lets you see the space on
your hard disk in a new way.

QUICKLY SEE THE EXTENSIONS PRESENT:

  You can quickly find all the extensions present in a directory by
  going to that directory by CHDIR and then typing 'ShowExts' on the
  DOS prompt. This can be useful if say, you want to keep only a few
  extensions and delete the rest to save space. For example, I am a
  programmer and normally I just want to preserve a few extension files
  in a program directory which contain my program: .C, .CPP, .RC
  etc. I want to delete all the temporary extensions like .SYM, .CSM,
  .MAP, .OBJ from time to time. ShowExts helps me identify which
  extensions are present so that I can quickly give 'del *.ext'
  commands to remove the unwanted extensions or can even create
  permanent BAT files to do the job.

QUICKLY SEE THE SIZES TAKEN BY EXTENSIONS:
  This can be even more useful. For example, I type:

     SHOWEXTS /SZ

  to get a list of extensions with their occupied sizes. This way I
  know that .CSM and .OBJ files are occupying maximum space in my
  program directory and how much space I'll get if I delete them. FYI,
  this list is in the order of extension names.

USE DOS REDIRECTION FOR LONG LISTS:
  For long lists, it's better to use DOS redirection as shown in the
  ShowSize documentation in the file SHOWSIZE.TXT.

SEE ALL THE SUBDIRS AS WELL:
  You can use the option /IS with any list so that the list is
  created by also looking at the extensions in all the subdirectories
  all the way down. For example, change to the root of C: drive by DOS
  commands:

    C:
    CD C:/

  Now get a list of all the extensions present on your disk by
  typing:
    SHOWEXTS /IS

  Or, get a count of all extensions on the hard disk:
    SHOWEXTS /IS /SC

  Or, see sizes occupied by all extensions on the hard disk:
    SHOWEXTS /IS /SZ

  You're sure to see some interesting results which you never knew
  before.

SORT THE LIST BY SIZE:
  If you want to sort the above list by occupied sizes of extensions,
  use the option '/SBS' or '/SS'.

SORT THE LIST BY COUNT:
  Use the option '/SBC' instead of the above '/S..' options.

Use ShowExts and see extensions in a new way. For example, do you
know which files take up maximum space in your Windows directory? If
you said .EXE files then you're wrong. Go to the Windows directory
and type 'SHOWEXTS /SBS /IS' to find that out. Of course, all these
DLL files are necessary and should NOT be deleted. But still, it's
interesting to know. Isn't it?

