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- March 18, 1986
-
- This archive is a MSDOS version of an "fgrep" utility ported from
- XENIX to Computer Innovations C86 (quite simple, actually). It uses
- the Boyer-Moore algorithm for parallel string searches. On XENIX it
- really blows the real fgrep program away in performance. However, in
- MSDOS, the FIND command is still a bit faster, albeit more limited.
- In the archive:
-
- bgrep.exe is the executable C86 program
- bm.exe is another executable created with the XENIX/DOS cross-development
- system. Note larger executable size.
- bm.man is the manual entry.
- bgrep is a Makefile, usable with Microsoft MAKE Version 4.0, only slightly
- hacked from the UNIX make.
-
- The C86 version seemed at first to run MUCH slower that the Microsoft
- version until I changed the file opening from an ASCII open to a BINARY
- open. After that, the times seemed very close, with C86 having a slight
- edge. I'd put money on the next version of C86 leaving Microsoft C in
- the dust.
- Clay Haapala
- Lee Data Corporation