StringSearch was written by: Leland C. Sheppard Sheppard Software Company 4621 Luneman Road Placerville, CA 95667 Phone: (916) 621-4685 (BBS - 8AM to 11PM Pacific time) CIS ID: 70574,2146 The StringSearch program is shareware. If you use the program regularly and are interested in having us continue to develop it and other such programs, you should register the program with us. You may register StringSearch for $4.00. In order to register, fill in the Register.Txt form, make out a check payable to Leland C. Sheppard and mail both to the address shown above. StringSearch was written in VX-REXX 2.1 and requires the VX-REXX 2.1 (or higher) runtime module (VROBJ.DLL) in order to function. Also, REXX and REXXUTIL must be installed on your system; both REXX and REXXUTIL come with OS/2. File STRSCR.ZIP contains the VROBJ.DLL module; file STRSCH.ZIP does not. Only one copy of VROBJ.DLL is required for all of the VX-REXX programs on your system; if you have previously downloaded a copy of it, you do NOT need to download it again. HOW TO OPERATE STRINGSEARCH: StringSearch will search all specified files on all specified drives for the data you specify. When you have entered the string of data you want to search for and the file mask to use to find the appropriate files, check the Start checkbox. If you want to stop the search before StringSearch has finished, check the Stop checkbox. If you want only one drive searched, you should enter that drive as part of the file mask in the In Files window and then ignore the On Drives box entirely. If you want more than one drive searched, leave the drive letter off of the file mask in the In Files window and check the letters of the drives you want StringSearch to look at. When StringSearch starts, the complete list of drives on your system including floppy, hard and CD drives will be filled in the On Drives box. After the first search is complate, you can specify another string of data to search for and/or a new set of files to search while leaving the results of the first search intact. StringSearch will simply add the new results to the front of the list of items found. For each file found to contain the string of data being searched for, the fully qualified file name will be shown along with the date and time of last update, the file size and the attributes of the file. Following that will be the line(s) of data containing the string being searched for. Preceding each line of data is the number of that line in the file. As the search is progressing, StringSearch will show you the name of the file currently being searched, the total number of files selected for searching and the number of the file currently being searched in that list. Double click on the upper left corner of the window or press Alt-F4 to close the window and terminate StringSearch. Although you can start StringSearch from the command line, you can also define a program object pointing to StrngSch.EXE. If you specify the directory containing StringSearch as the working directory, StringSearch will be able to find this file when you press F1. NOTE: The enclosed Install.Cmd file will define a folder, the program object, the appropriate parameter line and the working directory for you. LIMITATIONS: If you specify a large number of files to be searched (like *.*) and several drives or partitions to search, the resulting search can take a considerable amount of time to complete; that is the reason for the Stop checkbox. Thank you for your interest in our software. Leland C. Sheppard, 4-29-1995 Version 1.0 Changes from version 1.0 to ???: (c) Copyright Leland C. Sheppard, 1995. All rights reserved.