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- What's new with MaxFind 3.0:
- - New span options - paragraph. Plain paragraph separator (a blank
- line) or a specific string (eg, 'bbs:'). This is great for saved
- Email and other computer produced data.
- Or a "hanging outdent" paragraph where the first line starts in
- column 1 with the balance of the "paragraph" indented. Good for
- BBS file lists
- - Faster - with data in a ramdisk or cache, 900k bytes per
- second on a 386-40.
- - Color on the output to hilight the found strings.
- - Files to be searched can be specified with a filelist.
- - "MAXFIND" environment variable allows you to change the
- default options including the color.
- - Less unneeded output.
- - The form \nn may be used to enter characters that are not enterable
- thru the keyboard. nn specifies the decimal equivalent of the character.
- - Default is now an unlimited input line length, with an option
- to limit it to 80 bytes. -L
- - NOT boolean option. !
- - Line start option, ^ indicates first position.
- - Piped input accepted, ie: <
- - For use in batch files, returns 1 if any hits, else 0;
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- Example batch files:
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- 1. mf -ps"^ bbs:" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 c:\Email.sav\*.*
- Searching saved E-mail using paragraph scope where the first
- line of the messages start with " bbs:".
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- 2. mf -po %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 c:\filelist.bbs\*.*
- Paragraph scope hanging outdent (first line only in col. 1)
- Typical of BBS file lists.
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- 3. mf volume %1 %2 %3 %4 c:\info\floppy.cat | mf -psvolume %1 %2 %3 %4
- Diskette cataloging, where "dir a: >>floppy.cat" produces the
- catalog using diskettes with labels (internal matches external).
- The search indicates the diskette volume containing the file.
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- 4. mf -ps"^ BBS:" !forsale- msgs.old >msgs.new
- For saved E-mail, purge messages from forsale conferences.
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- 5. mf -ps\31 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 c:\bible\*.*
- Search bible verses
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- Paragraph option:
- -p Specify paragraph option, where paragraphs are seperated by a
- blank line.
- -po[n] Another paragraph option, this time the paragraph is defined
- as "outdented" or "hanging indent". If a number is not
- specified, the paragraph starts with text in column 1 and
- the rest of the lines start with at least one space. If
- the optional n is used, it specifies the column in in which
- the first line should be nonblank.
- -psTEXT The string (ps) option indicates that the first line of
- the "paragraph" contains TEXT. The TEXT should be in quotes
- if it contains any blanks.
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