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From: iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looking for DOS greppers
Message-ID: <4651@zen.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 03:44:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 03:44:44 1987
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References: <331@gvgspd.UUCP> <312@mks.UUCP>
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In article <312@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>In article <331@gvgspd.UUCP>, mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti) writes:
>> I have seen a few grep style programs around, but none that really mimic the
>> UN*X grep.  If you have one, I would appreciate receiving it.  Please
>> include source, if available.
>In the MKS Toolkit, there are egrep and fgrep. [...]

I'm getting kinda tired of hearing about MKS.  It's as if everyone who got
suckered into plunking down their $70 (or what ever it is), wants to make
sure everyone else gets taken in, too.  Alot of the tools you can get from
them are available in source and in the public domain (the only one I haven't
seen is awk).  For instance, the DECUS grep seems to be fairly complete and
compiled problem free with msc4.0.  I've also seen numerous greps & egreps
flying by on comp.sources.unix.  Check the comp.sources.unix (mod.sources) &
comp.sources.misc archives before you buy the MKS stuff.  If you lack a good
C compiler, of course, my point is moot.


- Tim Iverson
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