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From: vojta@spam.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Berkeley Strings?
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.203058.18191@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:30:58 GMT
References: <16330003@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1991Mar5.025840.26111@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Mar5.025840.26111@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <16330003@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, brown@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>|> I'm looking for the source to the Berkeley UNIX utility called "strings".
>|> It is used to find ascii strings inside a binary file.
>
>  Well, you could check the bsd-sources directory on uunet.uu.net before
>posting a question about bsd sources to the entire world.

You might also check comp.sources.misc/volume7/nstrings.bsd.Z on uunet for
an independent version.

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