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- FBView is an oddball file viewer program which just might be useful
- for purposes other than intended.
- The intention was a quick DOS Forth block file viewer. It does that
- job.
- The other things are up to you.
-
- ++ shows a 1k window into the file, doesn't give a damn about line
- ends
- ++ pages by 1 or 10k at a time
- ++ search facility for anything (even cr or 0) but case sensitive
- only
- ++ can write a disk file giving the offset of every match
- ++ no file size limit, pure disk search
-
- tchannon@CIX
-
- Usage: fview <filename>
-
- Help: press f1
-
- Search: ASCII ' '..'~' excluding '\' which is escape character.
- use '\\' to search for '\'.
- use '\nnn' to search for strange characters (nnn is decimal
- code of character.
-
- Example: Find:Hello\013 \\ friends
-
- To use the save index to disk, setup a search string which will find
- an instance of the search string. Next just press f4 (the search
- always starts at the file beginning for this function).
- If the index file exists you will be prompted for overwrite, append
- or quit. Append can be used to build up a file containing the
- results of several searches.
- File format: (right to change is reserved)
- ---
- filename dateoffilename<cr>
- searchstring in fbview format<cr>
- offset<cr>
- .
- .
- Qty=xx<cr> (number of matches)
- ---
- All numbers are decimal.
-
- No charge is being made for V01a of the program known as FBVIEWER
- and no warrenty is given or implied about the fitness of the program
- for any use whatsoever and any data loss or damage however caused is
- hereby disclaimed. T N Channon 12 June 1991.
-
- Mr Tim Channon
- 25 Stanley Road
- Newbury
- Berks. RG14 7PB
- 0635 -40297
- tchannon@CIX
-