The iHub Wish List

[gotmilk]

Msg Replied To: "... would settle for text string searches,
another words 2 or more words enclosed in quotes."

Its available for $1.

Thats the price I want to sell it to SI+IH (currently Bob, Matt & Dave)
where "it" are the never-made-public vanilla flavor C sources
of the search program I made back in Windows 3.1 era.

It will pump out each line in a text file that contains a hit
of words and phrases you input.

No logical operators, but has as option to display earlier and later lines
that surrond the line with the search hits.

Very small and fast...
Directory of C:...
12/08/2004 05:32 AM <DIR> .
12/08/2004 05:32 AM <DIR> ..
04/21/1998 09:24 PM 21,759 FIT.EXE

And it even accepts an input text file where each search item
is terminated with a NewLine(Enter keyboard key) so that you
can create text files containing different search criterion items
and simply give the program that file rather than type in again
a bunch of search items.

On Silicon Investor I sent E. Charters a copy of the .EXE
but he has not the ability to tell me how he found it useful.

I'm willing to sent anyone a copy of the .EXE and run it and
then hopefully tell Bob what they think.

I run it at the DOS Prompt on my Windows XP eventhought
I last built it using the Windows 3.1 SDK.

I forget the words, but that option to take as input the file
containing the list of search items is something like @INPUT
or whatever reads what you type into the keyboard, so while
you can type them in using the keyboard as the input file,
that file you can create using like NOTEPAD.EXE can then
be inputted using the Unix Pipe symbol/program,
as,
> TYPE IN.TXT /(pipe character) FIT.EXE ...
and,
I usually capture the output using the > or >>

doug