Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!w8sdz From: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Tools for viewing SIMIBM.IDX on a PC Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 00:03:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 54 In a recent Info-IBMPC digest Greg Hicks said: > My copy of Norton Editor can't handle the SIMIBM.IDX file (Listing of > Programs available from the MSDOS Archives from WSMR.SIMTEL20) at one > shot. I have to delete x number of lines at the beginning of the file > in order to get the rest to load. However, I just live with this > restriction because NE is such a small nice (quick and dirty??) editor. > Like you, I'm just a satisfied user. gph] Greg, have you tried Vernon Buerg's LIST program? Directory PD1: Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== LIST75G.ZIP B 98723 910406 V. Buerg's classic ascii/binary file viewer If there is no need to edit the SIMIBM.IDX, you can view and search it with that program. In addition, get this file: Directory PD1: Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== SIMCVT_C.ARC B 11261 900427 Compiled C pgm for MSDOS to print SIMIBM.IDX The archive contains SIMCVT.EXE, a fast convertion program that puts the SIMIBM.IDX into a more human-readable form. Try this: SIMCVT SIMIBM.LST Then: LIST SIMIBM.LST I think you will be very pleased. Another tidbit - make a two-line batch file called LOOKS.BAT. @echo off fgrep -sx %1 c:\simtel\simibm.idx | simcvt | list /s The fgrep program referred to above is: Directory PD1: Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== FGREP172.ZIP B 12512 900510 Chris Dunford's fast text search w/wildcards Try some searches with LOOKS.BAT. That's what I used to produce the SIMTEL20 file references in this message. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND