Warning: This version (1.2.1 PPC) runs only on a PowerMac. Use FindText 1.2 on other Macs.
FindText is a utility program that searches your files for specific text. It can search your 1000 Mb harddisk for that one file you’re looking for. You can specify where it has to look in the file: the data fork, the resource fork or both. You can search your whole harddisk for that word-processing document containing a specific name, subject, date, word, ...
Instead of manually opening all your documents and looking for a specific address let FindText do it for you (you probably will forget to open the document you are looking for because it is in a folder where it doesn’t belong and you don’t expect it to be there). It saves you a lot of time and boring work.
FindText can work in the background so you can let it do it’s work while you are doing more interesting stuff than watching the progressbar move.
FindText needs System 7, supports drag&drop. The search routine is rather simple but fast and appropriate in most every day use.
This is the PowerPC version of FindText. FindText 1.2.1 PPC runs only on a Power Macintosh. The next version of FindText will be a FAT version, i.e. it will run native both on a PowerMac and on a 68020 / 68030 / 68040 Mac. Users of a 68K Mac need FindText 1.2.
FindText is shareware (US$ 20). When registering you will receive a password that annulates the annoying shareware-messages and will work with all future versions of FindText. The most easiest way to register a single license is by sending US $20 cash. Include your e-mail address if you have one, this way you will receive your password as fast as possible.
Patrick Maes
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B-8800 Roeselare
Belgium
e-mail: maes@macbel.be
Remark: (not included in the manual)
The progessbar will not show up if you are searching large directories or volumes. Reason: speed !
To know how much time the search will take (and to initialize the progressbar), FindText has to check first all the files it will have to search. This takes too much time on large volumes. By not doing this first step the time is reduced by about 25%.The watch-cursor shows you that FindText is doing its job.
In a next version you will have the opportunity of selecting if you want the progessbar or not as a preference.
