Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Fred,

I use 4DOS but it has neither FileFind nor ffind.
The 4DOS.INFO site shows nothing on either. Please advise.



> Just to jump in here, 4DOS, a replacement and
> enhancement for http://command.comcommand.com,
> has FileFind (ffind), a grep-ish utility one
> switch of which allows for searching text in a
> file (ffind /T"nnn"). Add the /S switch and it
> will dive through subdirectories. It's slow on
> my system, but I'm running BOXER on Mac OS X
> 10.6.8 (a creditable XyWrite performer without
> full U2 capabilities). 4DOS is free; you can
> find a link to it and many other very
> interesting stuff at http://WWW.4DOS.INFOWWW.4DOS.INFO.Â
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Carl Distefano
> <mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxcld@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Reply to note from Bill Troop
> <mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxxbilltroop@xxxxxxxx> Wed, 12 Mar 2014
>
> 11:09:57 +0000
>
> Bill:
>
> > findstr is still part of Win 8.1. I wonder if it now has more
> > intelligence than previously? For example, it seems able to
> > read pdfs.
>
> It reads PDFs fine on my prehistoric WinXP SP3 system, a Dell
> Dimension 8400 that I bought in September of 2004. Seems like
> yesterday.
>
> (We, here, dwell in prehistory, do we not?)
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxcld@xxxxxxxx