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- From: rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: 'what'--locates tag strings in files
- Date: 31 Aug 88 17:30:55 GMT
- Summary: what.arc, locates tag strings in files
- Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
-
- [ Version 2.0 of 14 August, 1988. I edited the following description.
- -- R.D.]
-
- Here is a Unix-like utility (with source) for MS-DOS. I compiled with
- MSC 5.1, but it is ANSI C with only file opening MS-DOS specific code.
-
- It looks for a key text string in a file (any file: source text, binary
- object, or executible).
-
- Why what? First of all, to identify executible files. This utility
- lets you know what version an executible is. It is also very useful for
- library routines, both for checking which version is used and also to
- see what routines actually get loaded at link time. The programmer
- must include a key string in the source code, which may be in C,
- assembldy, or other language.
-
- This would be handy if people sending things to comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- used it. Executables could be easily identified even if the original
- distribution were lost, or confused with updates.
-
- The .COM file included uses MS-DOS wildcard expansion, so
- "what *.exe" should work.
-
- Rick Coates
-
- tektronix!reed!percival!agora!rickc
- OR
- tektronix!sequent!islabs!ateq!rick
-