Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)
- From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:33:05 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Fred. Forgot about that one, even though I had a license to that whole
family of products at one time, via 4OS2.
Jordan
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> From: Fred Weiner <fw1948@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: XyWrite List <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:53 AM
>Subject: Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)
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>Just to jump in here, 4DOS, a replacement and enhancement for command.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
>WWW.4DOS.INFO.
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>On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>Reply to note from Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> Wed, 12 Mar 2014
>>11:09:57 +0000
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>>Bill:
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>>> 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.
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>>It reads PDFs fine on my prehistoric WinXP SP3 system, a Dell
>>Dimension 8400 that I bought in September of 2004. Seems like
>>yesterday.
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>>(We, here, dwell in prehistory, do we not?)
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>>--
>>Carl Distefano
>>cld@xxxxxxxxxx
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