Just to jump in here, 4DOS, a replacement and
enhancement for <http://command.com>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 <http://WWW.4DOS.INFO>WWW.4DOS.INFO.Â
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Carl Distefano
<<mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxxx>cld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Reply to note from Bill Troop
<<mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>cld@xxxxxxxxxx
