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- Thank you for your interest in Search and Replace!
-
- Create a directory and copy all the files on disk into it. If you are running
- Windows 95 or NT, create a shortcut to SR32.EXE. Windows 3.1x users, add SR.EXE
- to a group in the Program Manager.
-
- The SR.ZIP file contains the latest version of Search and Replace for Windows (sr.exe), as well
- as the 32-bit version of Search and Replace (sr32.exe). The 32-bit version runs on Windows NT
- and Windows 95, and was tested on VFAT (Windows 95's file system), and NTFS (Windows NT's
- optional, more secure file system).
-
- PLEASE NOTE: While Search and Replace allows replacing in binary files (such
- as .DOC, .XLS etc), these proprietary format files may contain internal
- counters which may get out of synch. As a result, the application that
- created the file may not be able to read it. For best results, replace
- in ASCII text files (such as .HTM, .RTF, .TXT, .INI, .C, .CPP, .H etc).
-
- New features in v2.7-2.83 include:
- - Output Options were split from Search Options and expanded. A Display replace
- string feature will allow creation of reports without line numbers. It also
- serves as a log of what was replaced (when some hits are not replaced, the
- replace string is not output).
- - If a file is in use by another application and cannot be changed, an error
- message is now displayed. Also, all system colors are correctly used in Windows
- 95 and NT 4.x.
- - A new, better looking Select Directory dialog is now used.
- - View Context dialog font can now be changed.
- - Options dialog is improved (uses tabs for better organization).
- - When using scripts, backups are made in separate directories for each path in
- the script(make sure you have enough disk space).
- - Script files are stored in ASCII text format for easy editing and printing (using
- any text editor).
- - A button was added to the Binary Mode dialog (... button next to Search and
- Replace string fields) to check for \ characters and change them to \\ so that
- they are parsed correctly. The dialog also checks if any \ characters may need
- to be doubled (\\) and prompts the user to do so.
- - Searching through .ZIP archive files. View Context, Open, Open With and
- Open with Default menus can also act on files inside ZIP files.
- - You can prepend or append data (several lines if you want) at the beginning or
- end of the files processed using the Binary Mode dialog (... buttons next to the
- Search and Replace fields). This feature can also be used with scripts.
- - The Script Dialog is larger. Buttons were also added for Inserting and Moving
- (Up and Down) script lines.
- - Write changed files to Backup Directory option now allows you to leave your
- original files intact and write the changed files to the Backup Directory instead.
- - Show only File Names option was implemented.
- - Buttons for Replace/Skip in current directory were added in the Replace
- Confirmation dialog.
- - Regular expressions to find (and replace) items "close by"
- (up to 4096 characters) can be set in options. The default is 512 characters.
- - For the Replace option Prompt on each file, a Cancel button allows you
- to stop the replace at any time.
- - The !^$ operators are now supported for regular expressions. Also the []
- operator now matches only one character in the list specified (to comply
- more with the grep functionality).
- - Regular Expressions are now better documented and with more examples
- in the help file.
- - Binary Mode dialog (... buttons next to Search and Replace strings) clearly
- display the CR, LF and TAB characters. Also the help file better explains
- the use of special characters.
- - The Windows 95/NT version allows View Context of binary files through a new
- Freeware utility: HexView. HexView can be downloaded from
- http://www.funduc.com It should then be installed in the
- same directory as Search and Replace(or in the path or the Windows dir.).
- - Scripts can be created to specify multiple search/replace combinations (with
- associated settings) and/or multiple paths and masks to process. The script
- settings (masks, paths, search/replace strings) can also be overridden
- from the main screen.
- - New command line parameters were added for Touch, Replace and sCript file.
- See help file for more details.
- - File Finder feature and collection of file names to process is faster.
- - Exclude masks can now be used. For example: *.*;~*.swp;~*.exe;~*.dll will process
- all but *.swp;*.exe;*.dll files.
-
- Features planned for future releases include:
-
- - Filters for processing files between dates, sizes, binary only.
- - Allow a "counter" type replace where a numeric value would be incremented with
- every replace in a file.
- - Allow making changes without changing the date/time stamp.
- - More options for script users such as show only file names with matches, allow
- searching for files containing "string1 AND (string2 OR NOT(string3))" type
- expressions.
-
- The same help file is used for both versions.
-
- Search and Replace and other useful utilities can be found at the URLs below or
- on WUGNET's (Windows User Group Network) CompuServe forums (GO WINSHARE, search for
- SR.ZIP).
-
- As part of the registration fee, you will also receive free updates and customer
- support for six months (by E-MAIL). For ordering information, see the help file or
- the About Box.
-
- Thank you,
-
- Mike Funduc, President Funduc Software Inc.
- http://www.funduc.com
- sales@funduc.com