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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looking for DOS greppers
Message-ID: <1281@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 13:37:46 EST
Article-I.D.: csib.1281
Posted: Fri Nov  6 13:37:46 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Nov-87 05:11:39 EST
References: <331@gvgspd.UUCP> <312@mks.UUCP> <4651@zen.berkeley.edu> <7776@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <4651@zen.berkeley.edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
|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

When I find a public domain grep that let's me type

   grep garbage ../*/*.c

and searchs all ten subdirectories that I have source in, then I'll feel bad
that I paid the ~$100 for MKS.  Until then, it is definitly well worth the
relativly inexpensive price.  Not to mention the some 70 other tools, many of
which I havn't seen duplicated by anyone else.  So you screw around with your
public domain grep wondering why it doesn't work and I'll continue to 
get my job done with programs that do the job and are as bug-free as any
I've seen.

Jerry Whitnell				Lizzi Borden took an axe
Communication Solutions, Inc.		And plunged it deep into the VAX;
					Don't you envy people who
					Do all the things s Svocafore ven