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 containing a specific name, subject, date, word, .... You can specify where it has to look in the file: the data fork, the resource fork or both.
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. The search routine is rather simple but fast and appropriate in most every day use.
This is version 1.3 of FindText. It runs native both on a PowerMac and on a 68020 / 68030 / 68040 Mac.
FindText does not run on a 68000 Mac (Plus, SE, Classic, PowerBook 100, ...).
FindText is shareware (US$ 20 or BEF 650 for a single licence). When registering you will receive a password that disables the annoying shareware-messages and will work with all future versions of FindText. The most easiest way to register is by sending cash. Include your e-mail address if you have one, this way you will receive your password as fast as possible.
If possible, please send cash money or an EuroCheque with your cardnumber on the back.
Patrick Maes
Guido-Gezellelaan 95
B-8800 Roeselare
Belgium
e-mail: maes@macbel.be
Remark: (not included in the manual)
If FindText doesn't find the text you are searching for :
There is probably a RETURN character in (or at the end of) your search-text.
Try the following : Type COMMAND-A to select all text, type now your new text. Don't finish the text with a RETURN. Hit the FIND button. It should work now.
This is not a bug. It allows you to search on text with a RETURN character in it.
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 or directories. By not doing this first step the time is reduced by about 25%.The watch-cursor and the "infinite" progressbar shows you that FindText is doing its job.
What's new in version 1.3.1 ?
FindText 1.3 forgets to save the preferences in some situations. Version 1.3.1 fixes this bug.
Version 1.3
1. It's a FAT version: runs native both on a PowerMac and on a 68020 / 68030 / 68040 Mac.
2. It includes a file-filter. Now you can select which kind of files you want to search. Eg. search only in files of type TEXT or only files created after 1-1-95 and not larger than 300 kb.
