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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looking for DOS greppers
Message-ID: <7776@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 12:56:04 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7776
Posted: Thu Nov  5 12:56:04 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 03:46:33 EST
References: <331@gvgspd.UUCP> <312@mks.UUCP> <4651@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4651@zen.berkeley.edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
|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

Beside awk how about vi and Korn shell? I've tried several of the free
grep versions, and they all seem to have little gotcha's. If you don't
like or can't afford MKS, please don't imply that all of us who have it
are stupid to have bought it and that we try to drag others into our
mistakes. I trust you realize that there a still a few people on the net
who don't have a VAX or access to DECUS tapes.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me