************************************************************************ Find++ Version 2.61 for Windows 95/98/NT Copyright© 1996-2000, Byte Wyse Software. A Multi-File Search, Replace and Edit Utility ************************************************************************ What's new in version 2.61 ------------------------- Find++ (32-bit) comes with a lot of new, interesting features! Please read the Version History below to read about them. Brief Description of Find++ v2.61 ---------------------------------- Find++ is a useful Windows 95/98/NT shareware utility that gives you a powerful and friendly tool to find files having a common text across directories and drives. It's powerful user interface helps you quickly change all the occurrences of a specified text in your files. Full context-sensitive help and a small tutorial helps you grasp its user interface quickly. Search by specifying multiple file names with or without wild cards or just drag drop files from the File Manager. Long file names are supported. You can search for files up to a specified sub directory depth for each file name specification. By restricting search to a specified level you can fine tune searches through large media like CD-ROMS. You can search for a case sensitive, whole word or regular expression match. Find++'s regular expressions are similar to those in MS Word 6.0 and easy to master. You can also specify file modification dates and minimum and maximum file sizes. Files matching your search criteria are listed with their full file info's. Do recursive searches through the listed files with different search criteria to narrow your search even further. Recursive searches can help you find word combinations with spaces. Sort the listed files using the file name, size or date as the sort key within or across directories. Rename multiple files using wildcards and special characters. Delete, copy, move or zip selected files. Open a file in an edit window along with a numbered line list of the lines in the file containing the search text. The text contained in these lines are highlighted both in the edit window and in the line list. Double-clicking a line in the line list scrolls the edit window to bring the context of that line in the file into view. In version 2.61 you can edit files upto 2 GB. The internal editor has a powerful Find/Replace dialog which you can use to replace text in multiple files. In version 2.61 you can confirm every replace or replace all at once in all the files. File save after replace can be confirmed for every file or optionally after all text in all the files have been replaced. Optionally, you can use your favorite editor or associated program to view the file. Use Find++ to search and replace common text like variable names in your programs files with regular expressions. It is also most useful for editing web site html files as they often have common text that needs to be regularly updated. Find++ version 2.6 is one of SoftSeek shareware site's Top download and an Editor's Pick in the Text Search and Replace category. See "http://www.softseek.com/Utilities/Text_File_Tools/Search_and_Replace" Find++ is yours for $18 only. Registration of your copy of Find++ can be conveniently done with the Register.exe program. This program enables you to register by email at Kagi, a shareware payment processing service. Please read Order.txt for details. Please check at Byte Wyse Software's web site at http://www.bytewysesoft.com for latest information on online payment methods and other designated payment agencies. Please see the file "Order.Txt" for details on pricing and ordering. _______________________________________________________________________ Contents of Find++ ver 2.61 package ---------------------------------- Your package contains the following files. 1 FINDPP32.EXE - Find++ version 2.61 executable file. 2 FINDPP32.HLP - Find++ version 2.61 help file. 3 FINDPP32.CNT - Find++ version 2.61 help file. 4 FINDPP32.INI - Find++ version 2.61 .INI file. 5 REGISTER.EXE - Find++ version 2.61 registration executable file. 6 REGISTER.HLP - Find++ version 2.61 registration help file. 7 README.TXT - This file containing the description of the FPPV26.ZIP package. 8 LICENSE.TXT - Text file containing license information, limited warranty and disclaimer. 9 ORDER.TXT - Text file containing Find++ ordering information. 10 FILE_ID.DIZ - Find++ description file. 11 VENDOR.TXT - Vendor information file. Installation of Find++ Version 2.61 __________________________________ 1. Unzip FPPV26.ZIP contents to an empty directory. 2. Run SETUP.EXE in this directory. Find++ Setup will take you through a series of dialogs to install Find++ in the directory of your choice. 3. If Find++ has already been installed in your system, and you wish to update your old version, please choose the same folder to install. All your old Find++ files will be written over except for your FINDPP32.INI file so that your old Find++ settings will still be retained. However, if you wish to retain your old version, please choose a new folder to install your new Find++ files. You can then uninstall the old version at a later date. Note. Users using WinZip can use the Install command after opening the FPPV26.ZIP contents in the WinZip window. Then run FINDPP32.EXE by clicking on its icon in the open Find++ window. Find++ comes with full context-sensitive help to help to you grasp its user interface quickly. Find++ is deemed as shareware and is not free. You may freely distribute it, however. This copy is fully functional but is for evaluation purposes only. Users are obliged to register and obtain a license for its use beyond its evaluation period of 21 days. Please read LICENSE.TXT for information regarding its use. To order your registered copy, please read ORDER.TXT. For any queries, please contact the author by Internet email at PravinPaul@kagi.com. Note. CompuServe's SWREG service for Find++ will be not be available anymore and all payments will be accepted only through the Kagi Payment Service. Your comments and suggestions for improvements are most welcome. Version History --------------- Ver 2.0(16 bit) -------------- Added sort, copy, move, rename file operations to version 1.0 Ver 2.1(16 bit) -------------- Added file type toolbar combo, drag drop for directory field, window sizing for Find++ window. Added Find Next toolbar combo in FileView window. Corrected bugs in File type settings. Corrected bugs in Options/FileView dialog settings. Corrected bugs in Find++ editor's Find/Replace commands. Ver 2.2(16 bit) -------------- Added Zip feature, corrected bug in multiple file specs operation. Changed File Info listbox to a multiple select listbox. Added command to search again through files in File Info List. Ver 2.3 ------- Available in both 16 and 32 bit bit versions. Corrected disk read errors in files in root directory, corrected errors in GUI for dialog boxes, added count of text occurrences replaced. Ver 2.5(32 bit) -------------- Corrected bug in Directory and File Name specs having long file name with embedded spaces and semi-colons in Find++ window. Corrected bug in File Name's default directory in multiple file names specs. Ver 2.51(32 bit)(Released on Jan 17, 1999) ------------------------------------------ Corrected bug in FileView window sizing. Ver 2.60(32-bit) (Released on Oct 2, 1999) ----------------------------------------- The file size limit for editing files is 2 GB and not 64 kb anymore! Replace can now be done on selected text. Every text replace in each file can be confirmed by user for multi-file replace. Specified text found in files are highlighted in red in both the Edit and Line Views. When edited by user they are marked('!') in the Line list. Folder browse dialog now opens with selection at current directory. Select All now works in FileView and in the Files List box. Double-clicking a line in Line List scrolls the File Edit box to the corresponding line. All temporary files cleaned up after multi-file replace. Ver 2.61(32-bit) (Released on Jan 5, 2000) ------------------------------------------ Fixed Y2K problem. Fixed problem in file save of files larger than 64k.