To all, Here is the minitrue home page and the URL. Hope that this helps! Russ http://www.pagesz.net/~minitrue/ > Welcome to the MiniTrue home page > > MiniTrue is a fast and versatile text search/view/replace utility run from the DOS command line. MiniTrue synthesizes the functionality of such stalwarts as sed, more/less and grep while offering complete interactivity and a straightforward syntax. Mini > > Search: > > * All the filenames that will fit on the command line can be searched. Wildcards in the filenames are allowed. > * Over 40 strings can be searched for at a time. > * If the size of the command line buffer is inadequate, input files containing filenames and strings can be used. > * Subdirectories can be searched recursively, making disk-wide searches easy to implement. > * Regular expressions (similar to UNIX basic regular expressions) are supported. > * No limits on either file size or line length > * The search strings can be linked to form unions. All the strings in the union must be present within a specific region for a find to be reported. *The region for the union can be varied by either lines or bytes. > * *Minitrue can decompress archives before searching them. The default dearchiver is PKUNZIP but most popular dearchivers can be used. The archive files are not altered in any manner. > * MiniTrue is fast. A 486+ computer searching for one fixed string should scan at least 1MB per second. (On my AMD 5x86, MiniTrue can scan roughly 600MB of files in approximately 6 minutes). > > Display: > > * *MiniTrue 1.5 does not limit the amount of viewable text to one screen; it allows scrolling through the entire file in the manner of the textreaders less and more. > * *If no strings are specified, MiniTrue functions as a textviewer. The start of the file is displayed, and scrolling enables the remainder of the file to be viewed. This provides a way to examine the contents of a text file without the overhead of s > * Can display context in hexadecimal mode. *Toggling between ASCII and hex mode is allowed. > * Lines longer than 80 characters are wrapped around, making horizontal scrolling unnecessary. > * *Support for nonstandard SVGA modes such as 132 * 43 > * MiniTrue can bypass its textviewer mode and write all the lines containing matching strings to standard output a la grep. *Nonmatching lines, all lines or just the matching strings can be sent to standard output as well. Line numbers and file names > * *Accelerated scrolling - The longer the up/down arrow key is pressed, the faster MiniTrue will scroll through a file. This feature can be disabled. > * *Regular expression color coding - Each part of the regular expression will have a different color text. > > Replace: > > * Prompting is not mandatory - MiniTrue can make all replacements automatically. > * A substitute replacement string can be entered. The region of text to be replaced can be altered as well. > * Backup files can be made in order to safeguard against the possibility of unwanted changes. *Either the original file or the altered file can be saved with a new extension. Backups will never overwrite previously existing backup files. > * *If regular expressions are used, the replacement string can include all or part(s) of the found string. > > Other features of MiniTrue 1.5 include: > > * *Capacity to automatically generate a batch file from the given command line arguments. > * The number of finds/replacements (for both files and strings) can be printed when MiniTrue is done. > * *A log file reporting the locations of the finds and replacements can be generated. > * The default settings can be altered and saved. > * Extensive documentation > * .EXE size of only 76K results in quick startup. > * Several useful MiniTrue batch files are included. > * Should run on virtually all PC compatibles from 8088s on (about 200K of free memory is required). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download MiniTrue 1.5 64K (137K total uncompressed) last updated 8/23/96 > > Please send all comments, bugs & suggestions to apipkin@xxxxxxxx > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This web page is optimized for Lynx Download Lynx Title: The MiniTrue Home Page
Welcome to the MiniTrue home page
MiniTrue is a fast and versatile text search/view/replace utility run from the DOS command line. MiniTrue synthesizes the functionality of such stalwarts as sed, more/less and grep while offering complete interactivity and a straightforward syntax. MiniTrue is freeware and is not crippled in any manner. MiniTrue searches the selected file(s) for the desired string(s). Once a string is found, it is displayed on the screen along with its context, which can be scrolled through if desired. If a replacement has been specified for the found string, MiniTrue will prompt to see if the found string should be changed. These three phases of operation are explained in more detail: (* denotes a new feature)
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