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From: ddbunch@larry.wyvern.com (David Bunch)
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Subject: BSS148.ZIP - versatile VAX/VMS-style string search utility for MSDOS
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Thought this might be of interest to those of you that are having to migrate
to MSDOS.  I have also been told that this will run under Windows NT as a
DOS app.  The switches that should be quite similar to the VAX/VMS version
are:

/#           (SAME AS VMS /NUMBER)
/BEFORE      (date syntax is different, see below)
/EXCLUDE
/EXACT
/MATCH=AND,OR,NAND,NOR
/OUTPUT
/SINCE       (date syntax is different, see below)
/WIND

I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm),
(available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu
and its mirrors):

ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/textutil/bss148.zip

SimTel/msdos/textutil/
bss148.zip      Versatile VAX/VMS-style string search utility

BSS is a string search program modeled after VAX/VMS search utility.
Features include better wildcarding than DOS, multiple files and
directory trees & over 3000 search strings.  Also allows wild cards in
search strings, & many other features.  Extract documentation by
typing BSS /O=BSS.DOC /?

Special requirements: MS-DOS 3.x & up (maybe 2.x & up)

Changes: All known bugs have been addressed. Added some additional features

bss148.zip has replaced bss138.zip.

Usage:
       BSS [switches] FILE.NAM,file2,etc STRING,string,etc
switches:  (To create Documentation execute BSS /O=BSS.DOC /? )
  /A  Treat all files as ASCII         /B  for BBS file type listing
  /BEfore=MM/DD/YY or HH:MM:SS  Searches files after a certain DATE or TIME.
  /C:# search for string starting in this column only
  /D# String search DELIMITER          /E  EXACT matches only
  /F  display FILES that match wild cards (no search string used or needed)
  /FS display SUBTOTALS of SUBdirectories (does not display each file name)
  /H=BLink, BOLD(default), Reverse, No highlighting, [],{},(),or ''
  /I:ASHRE INCLUDE files with the following attribs (use /I:SH for all files)
  /J  Print JUST strings that match,   /K:# sKip lines longer that # (134 def.)
  /L:*?  wiLd search (the * & ? can be any 2 characters you wish to use)
  /M=AND or /M=OR (default) or /M=NAND or /M=NOR
  /N  Print NAMES for non matches      /O=filename    OUTPUT to this file name
  /P:# PAUSE after each screen         /R=filename    REDIRECT input of strings
  /S  search all SUB directories, or /SN (no printing of directory names)
  /SInce=MM/DD/YY or HH:MM:SS  Searches files after a certain DATE or TIME.
  /T  output TOTAL matches only        /U  USE Dos standard wild carding
  /W  WINDOW: [W=before,after] (ie. /W=5,6)
  /X=file,file,etc  eXclude files      /?  Display additional information
  /#=n or /#H=n Print line numbers (n = number of chars. to use)

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