There are many ports of Grep to Windows, including within
Gnu, Cygwin and MKS Toolkit. These days most people
use free versions, not surprisingly, but I did pay some
fairly serious money several years ago for MKS Toolkit, which
came with excellent documentation. I just Googled "MKS",
and I see they are still there.
As their idea of a programming joke, various Unix people
have added annoying paper-clips to various text editors.
(e.g. Google "vigor"). One I heard about pops up to
ask "Are you sure about that?" every time you delete
a single character.
Nick
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Newson, Roger B
> grep is a part of Unix, which scans through files looking for a
> particular string . I don;t know whether Paul can access a
> Windows-compatible version of grep in a hurry, but it sounds like the
> kind of thing Paul is looking for. The Windows explorer is presumably
> trying to be helpful in guessing (wrongly) that Paul's
> do-files are not
> really text files. I don't know how you reset that, although
> I did find
> out how to turn off the graphic of a sniffer dog (which wags its tail
> when it thinks it has found what the user wants, and IMHO is almost as
> aggravating as being eyed up by Mr Clippy).
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