                          ShowSize
                A directory sizing disk-space utility
              Copyright (C) 1994-1997, Sanjay Kanade
                       All rights Reserved.

A Win95 command line utility. Also runs on DOS and Windows NT.  Get a
big picture of the disk space taken up by various directories on your
hard disk. Ever wished for a command line utility that can quickly
find the total occupied size of a directory?  ShowSize can help you
do that and more. It also lists occupied-sizes of the top-level
subdirectories of a given directory. ShowSize can also list the whole
tree of subdirs and sizes and can handle thousands of directories!  A
real help when cleaning up to get more disk space! ShowSize is also
excellent for network administrators who want to monitor the space
usage on large disk drives.

BASIC TIPS ON THE PROGRAM USAGE:

Copy SHOWSIZE.EXE to a directory on your path so that you can use it
from anywhere. Also, it's better to rename it to SS.EXE so that you
can quickly type 'ss' in place of 'showsize'.

Just type "ShowSize ?" to get the basic tips on the usage of the
program. For example, to see the space usage on drive c:, type the
following command on the DOS prompt:

  showsize c:\

To see the space usage in the current directory, just type:
  showsize

To see the whole tree of subdirectories of the directory Windows, use
the following command:

  showsize c:\windows /st

TIPS ON MORE ADVANCED FEATURES OF SHOWSIZE: 

SORT BY SIZE:
  When you quickly want to find out the directories which are taking
  maximum space on your hard disk, it's better to use this sort option
  '/SS'. At the end of the list you'll find all the directories which
  occupy more space.  This can be very useful for cleaning up your disk
  to get rid of unwanted directories which you forgot to remove or want
  to remove temporarily.

  If you want to repeatedly look at the list, say when cleaning up,
  it's better to use DOS redirection to put the result of ShowSize to a
  text file so that you don't have to run ShowSize again and again for
  looking at the directories. For example, to use redirection, type
  this on the DOS prompt:

     showsize /ss C:\ >sizes.txt

  This will collect the list in sizes.txt file which you can view
  with a DOS MORE command for quick reference (or you can view it in a
  text editor in DOS or Windows)

     MORE <sizes.TXT

SHOW TREE OF SUBDIRS:
  If you want to look at the whole tree of subdirs with their
  subdirectories and sizes, you'll love this command. What's more, you
  can even sort the list at each level of the TREE by name or by size.
  For example, if you want to see subdirs under Windows directory
  sorted by size then type the following command on the DOS prompt:

     ShowSize /st /ss c:\windows

  You can also use DOS redirection as given earlier to capture the
  output to a disk file and view it with a text editor. If you want to
  view it in a Windows text editor like Notepad, it's better to use the
  option '/UT' so that the tree lines are made up with dash and plus
  characters. If you don't do that, DOS graphics characters are used
  which are not visible in a Windows text editor unless you use the
  "Terminal font" and even that may not work if you have multi-lingual
  font installed. Example of using /UT:

     ShowSize /st /ss /ut c:\ >tree.txt

PLEASE LOOK AT ALL THE TIPS:
  Please don't forget to look at all the tips shown with "ShowSize ?"
  and "ShowExts ?". For example, it makes sense to rename SHOWSIZE.EXE
  to SS.EXE so that you can type and run it quicker.


