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           | |_  | |/ _` / __| '_ \| |_  | | '_ \ / _` |  | | | |
           |  _| | | (_| \__ \ | | |  _| | | | | | (_| |  | |_| |
           |_|   |_|\__,_|___/_| |_|_|   |_|_| |_|\__,_|  |_(_)_|

                            © 1995 by Frank Würkner
                              All Rights Reserved


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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You need OS2.0 or higher!!!


QUICK OVERVIEW
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Tired of slow text search tools which pretend to be fast?
Want something real faaast?
Try FlashFind. It searches through a 2.5MB text on hard disc in 20 seconds
on a plain 68000er!!! For comparison c:search is about 20 times slower.
FlashFind uses a highly optimised, assembler coded Boyer-Moore search
algorithm. Additional speed is gained by using asynchron IO.


HISTORY
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1.1
     o FlashFind now first checks if the file really is a text file (but also
       can be forced to search all files with BIN switch)

     o now gives the filename where a problem appears

     o if an error occurs in a file FlashFind prints the error message
       and continues with the next file (instead of quiting as in 1.0)

     o line numbering possible through NUM switch.
       Too many asked for this :-)
     
     o INVERT switch to show all lines that do not match

     o VERBOSE switch to see which files are processed
     
     o MAXHIT to limit the number of matching lines

     o favourite options can be put into environment variable
       `FlashFind.prefs'

     o possible to use CTRL-D to skipp to next file

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  268     628  42.7% -lh5- a28e Sep 28  1995 FlashFind 1.1.info
[generic]                 7918   13324  59.4% -lh5- b5f4 Sep 28  1995 FlashFind 1.1/FlashFind
[generic]                 2359    5295  44.6% -lh5- ddab Sep 28  1995 FlashFind 1.1/FlashFind.doc
[generic]                  311     835  37.2% -lh5- ee15 Sep 28  1995 FlashFind 1.1/FlashFind.doc.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         4 files   10856   20082  54.1%            Sep 29  1995