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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Software Development Tools
Message-ID: <4427@enea.se>
Date: 8 Apr 89 18:25:40 GMT
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
>VMS "search" is in no way as capable as UNIX "grep" -- search is fine for
>really simple stuff, but grep also can handle sophisticated cases that
>search can't cope with.

As already has been noted there are things that "grep" doesn't handle,  
which SEARCH does. So depending on what you want, chose operating 
system. "See, I want do this search today and get this output, that
means I work on Unix/VMS today". :-)
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
I used to say "It could have been worse, it could have been Pepsi",
then I drank a Diet Coke...