Re: Non-NB: Dos text-in-files finder?

[James Ernest <JErnest>]

Mary
FileFind in my DOS version of the Norton Utilities does
a better job than the older applet you mention.

File Find
Version 7.0
Copyright 1993 by Symantec Corporation

You get a kind of list box showing files in which the
search string occurs, and you can see them displayed
as text or in a hex viewer.  Works very nicely.

I'm not aware of a shareware/freeware equivalent, but I'd
but there's something out there somewhere.

James


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> From:         Mary Bernard[SMTP:if10000]
> Sent:         Monday, November 09, 1998 7:34 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
> Subject:      Non-NB: Dos text-in-files finder?
>
> I've got a little shareware program for Windows 3.x which will search
> for a string through all the directories on a drive, and present me
> with a list
>  of all
> the files that contain it. Does anyone know a DOS equivalent that I
> could
> download? The only one I've got is a 1988 Norton applet that reports
> string matches as byte offsets, without telling you what file they're
> in; and NB's multiple-file search requires you to enter
> paths for every directory and subdirectory: which would take all day!
>
> I'm using DOS 6.2.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mary
>
> Mary Bernard
> <if10000>
>