From sentto-2719433-36-998322108-gtoal=vt.com@returns.onelist.com Mon Aug 20 10:38:04 2001 Received: from n25.groups.yahoo.com ([216.115.96.75]) by admin.vt.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21459 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:38:03 -0500 (CDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-2719433-36-998322108-gtoal=vt.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2001 15:41:48 -0000 X-Sender: mike@mikescommunity.com X-Apparently-To: edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 20 Aug 2001 15:41:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 41361 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Aug 2001 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior.wizardshosting.com) (64.46.100.18) by mta3 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from pc-62-31-72-238-ed.blueyonder.co.uk ([62.31.72.238] helo=gonzales) by warrior.wizardshosting.com with asmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15YrAu-0003zE-00 for edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:41:12 -0400 Message-ID: <008001c1298e$8d2c2560$0200a8c0@gonzales> To: References: <9lr7os+lsil@eGroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - warrior.wizardshosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yahoogroups.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mikescommunity.com From: MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com; contact edinburgh-computer-history-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:40:44 +0100 Reply-To: edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ed-comp-hist] Keep up the good work Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Hi Graham >> It may take me some time to find it again (I have 1500 directories named disk0001 through disk1500 approximately!) as I don't have an indexer like Alta Vista running on my PC at the moment, but I'll find it eventually. (And PC's aren't as easy just to kick off a large recursive grep, as Unix is :-( ) << It's only easy on *nix if you know the command. DOS is no different: dir vec*.* /s to do a recursive file search grep is more of a problem. I had an old DOS grep years ago but I don't know where that is. However, you could try these sites: http://oakroadsystems.com/sharware/grep.htm for a shareware DOS version. http://www.albedo.net/~arvic/fw-dos.html for a freeware version Mike Scott http://mikescommunity.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: edinburgh-computer-history-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/