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Thank you for your interest in Search and Replace!
Create a directory and copy all the files on disk into it. If you are running
Windows 95 or NT, create a shortcut to SR32.EXE. Windows 3.1x users, add SR.EXE
to a group in the Program Manager.
The SR.ZIP file contains the latest version of Search and Replace for Windows (sr.exe), as well
as the 32-bit version of Search and Replace (sr32.exe). The 32-bit version runs on Windows NT
and Windows 95, and was tested on VFAT (Windows 95's file system), and NTFS (Windows NT's
optional, more secure file system).
PLEASE NOTE: While Search and Replace allows replacing in binary files (such
as .DOC, .XLS etc), these proprietary format files may contain internal
counters which may get out of synch. As a result, the application that
created the file may not be able to read it. For best results, replace
in ASCII text files (such as .HTM, .RTF, .TXT, .INI, .C, .CPP, .H etc).
New features in v2.63-2.76 include:
- The Script Dialog is larger. Buttons were also added for Inserting and Moving
(Up and Down) script lines.
- Write changed files to Backup Directory option now allows you to leave your
original files intact and write the changed files to the Backup Directory instead.
- Show only File Names option was implemented.
- Buttons for Replace/Skip in current directory were added in the Replace
Confirmation dialog.
- Regular expressions to find (and replace) items "close by"
(up to 4096 characters) can be set in options. The default is 512 characters.
- For the Replace option Prompt on each file, a Cancel button allows you
to stop the replace at any time.
- The !^$ operators are now supported for regular expressions. Also the []
operator now matches only one character in the list specified (to comply
more with the grep functionality).
- Regular Expressions are now better documented and with more examples
in the help file.
- Default Search String, File Masks and Directory are displayed for first-time
users(all you have to do is click Search).
- Binary Mode dialog (... buttons next to Search and Replace strings) clearly
display the CR, LF and TAB characters. Also the help file better explains
the use of special characters.
- A new command line parameter (/Q) allows closing the application after an
operation is performed for users who want to call it repeatedly from batch
files.
- The Windows 95/NT version allows View Context of binary files through a new
Freeware utility: HexView. HexView can be downloaded from
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/funduc. It should then be installed in the
same directory as Search and Replace(or in the path or the Windows dir.).
- Scripts can be created to specify multiple search/replace combinations (with
associated settings) and/or multiple paths and masks to process. The script
settings (masks, paths, search/replace strings) can also be overridden
from the main screen.
- New command line parameters were added for Touch, Replace and sCript file.
See help file for more details.
- File Finder feature and collection of file names to process is faster.
- Replace feature is faster when processing multiple files.
- Windows 3.1x version (SR.EXE) users can now process more than 3000 files
(limited only by available memory).
- Last non-maximized window size is now restored for the Main Windows and the View
Context window.
- In the Replace Confirmation dialog hitting Enter will replace.
- In the View Context window, paging through the file and then clicking on the edit
box will not cause it to shift when displaying the maximum number of lines.
- Exclude masks can now be used. For example: *.*;~*.swp;~*.exe;~*.dll will process
all but *.swp;*.exe;*.dll files.
- Backup directory feature will create all directories properly. Directories with
exactly 2 characters (such as C:\SR) were not created correctly in the past versions
and the replace for those files were only performed if backup was not used.
- Copy to clipboard error on large Search Result lists was corrected.
- Command line parameters are now parsed correctly if the flags were specified last.
Features planned for future releases include:
- Searching through .ZIP archive files.
- More options for script users such as show only file names with matches, allow
searching for files containing "string1 AND (string2 OR NOT(string3))" type
expressions.
- A utility for importing/exporting and printing ASCII (text) scripts.
The same help file is used for both versions.
Search and Replace and other useful utilities can be found at the URLs below or
on WUGNET's (Windows User Group Network) CompuServe forums (GO WINSHARE, search for
SR.ZIP).
As part of the registration fee, you will also receive free updates for a year and customer
support (by E-MAIL). For ordering information, see the help file.
Thank you,
Mike Funduc, President Funduc Software Inc.
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/funduc
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/funduc
102372.2530@compuserve.com
funduc@sprynet.com