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From: derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac equivalent of "grep" needed ... answer:  On-Location!
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Date: 25 Jul 90 13:49:42 GMT
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Reply-To: derek@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (Derek L. / MacLover)
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From cliff@cfa250.harvard.edu (Cliff Stoll) come these immortal words:
>From article <1990Jul19.185505.16535@ecn.purdue.edu>, by jmoore@cidmac.ecn.
 purdue.edu (James D Moore):

>> Is there a Mac Application that works something like "grep" in unix [...]?

>Hey - try On-Location.  It will search your whole hard disk for a particular
>word.  You can then immedaitely open each file or search through it.

	I just read about On-Location and it sounds neat.  I understand
that it creates a semi-permenant index to all the files on your hard-drive.
How big does this index get for, say, an 80 MB HD?  How does the program
update it (i.e. is there an INIT that runs concurrently which updates the
index when new files are created, or checks the disk on bootup)?

>Works fast, too:  On my Mac Plus, I just scanned my disk 
>for files containing the word "Cuckoo" ... took just over a minute
>to search 80 Mbytes.   Zippy!

	"Cuckoo" -- cute, real cute.  :-)

>Since it's a desk accessory, it's always available.  Good stuff.

	I'm really hoping that with the reworking of DAs in (the elusive)
System 7, there will be more DA utilities rather than cDev/INIT combinations.
It takes my system a while to boot up even on the IIci at work, and on the
Plus, at home, it takes almost two minutes.  Arrrgh!  (I know, I know...
but I _need_ all those INITs!)  :-)

>-Cliff Stoll   cliff@cfa.harvard.edu

						Derek L.
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