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- LOOK.DOC Mini DOC for LOOK.COM by Tom Zimmer
-
- LOOK is a text search program, it will look for words or phrases in one or
- more files in one or more directories.
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- LOOK can be used in any of the follows ways:
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- LOOK mytext <enter> search all (*.*) file in the
- current directory for "mytext".
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- LOOK "my text" <enter> search all (*.*) files in the
- current directory for "my text".
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- LOOK 'my text' *.txt *.doc search all .TXT and all .DOC files
- for "my text".
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- LOOK !my text! *.txt>mytext.lst search all .TXT files for "my text"
- and write the found list of occurances
- to the file MYTEXT.LST
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- LOOK "my text" -g<dir> *.txt GLOBAL search all .TXT files in <dir>
- and lower directories for "my text".
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- If LOOK is entered on a line without any parameters, then it will prompt
- for the string to search for, and the file specs to search.
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- As can be seen in the examples above, the first "NON-ALPHANUMERIC"
- character following the LOOK command will be used as the text string
- delimiter character.
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- A full DOS pathed filespec or specs can be used in any of the above
- examples. Here are some typical filespecs:
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- C:\UTILS\*.DOC A:\*.TXT C:\TC\INCLUDE\*.H
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- LOOK scans files at the rate of about 40,000 bytes per second on a 8MHz
- PC-AT class harddisk machine.
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- You can pause LOOKing by pressing the space bar, or terminate with
- the ESCape key.
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- LOOK automatically breaks non-text files into 64 character lines, so it
- can be used for searching Forth .BLK and .SCR files as well as text files.
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- LOOK was written in Forth, and compiled with the TCOM optimizing
- compiler on the F-PC Forth system using IBM-PC/AT compatible hardware. A
- machine with at least 512k of memory and a harddisk is required. LOOK is
- public domain, as is F-PC, and TCOM. To obtain the latest version of
- LOOK, F-PC, and TCOM send $50.00 to the address listed below:
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- Tom Zimmer
- 292 Falcato Drive
- Milpitas, Ca. 95035
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- Home (408) 263-8859
- Work (408) 432-4643
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- LOOK, F-PC, and TCOM come with the complete source, and can each can be
- completely regenerated without any additional software tools.
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