LFIND-program information.
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This is a program to be used for searching index files.
But this program is unique in a few ways, which makes it worth checking
out, and use. To get a short usage-info, just run the program.


LET ME EXPLAIN:
The index files usually look like this:
(and they have to look like that to take benefit of this program)

BEA-211.ZIP             122000    04-10-94  Burger Editor version 2.11
                                            A nice hex editor for
                                            Windows 95.
FOO-ABC.ZIP              33000    04-11-94  Version 2 of the wellknown
                                            football game. This version
                                            is for OS/2.

Now, the usuall problem is that when you search for "hex" and "OS/2"
with a "grep" program or any similar, is that you get this result:

                                            A nice hex editor for
                                            is for OS/2.

But what are the file names ? What date ? What tape/dir ?
And later when you look at that result, you'll ask: what is this a 
search result of ?
Something really sucks with those programs.


THIS PROGRAM SOLVES THESE PROBLEMS !

It collects those lines that belong together, so that when you are
searching for "OS/2" you'll get this result:

FOO-ABC.ZIP              33000    04-11-94  Version 2 of the wellknown
                                            football game. This version
                                            is for OS/2.

Even though "OS/2" was not mentioned in the first line, you'll get
the entire description. And in the beginning of the result report
it will say that "this is a result from searching for OS/2".



MY USE OF THE PROGRAM:
You don't have to do this, but it might help.
I've made a BAT file called L.BAT which makes it easier to use. And those
files (L.BAT and LFIND.EXE) are in my search PATH variable.
I have all the index files in the C:\LISTS directory and store all my 
reports in the C:\TXT directory. So my L.BAT file looks like this:

@ECHO OFF
C:
CD \LISTS
LFIND *.* C:\TXT\RESULT.TXT %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
EDIT C:\TXT\RESULT.TXT
CD \

If I want to save a result, I'll just save it with a new name with the
EDIT program. So my personale usage is just this:

X:\> L HEX OS/2

Make your own BAT file (or CMD if you're a cool OS/2 user :-)
so that it fits your system.

NOTE: The index files must be in current dir !
      You can't write LFIND d:\LISTS\*.TXT RESULT HEX OS/2
                            ^^^^^^^^^
NOTE: LFIND.EXE  is the DOS version.
      LFIND2.EXE is the OS/2 version.


If you actually do use this program, mail me a "HI THERE", and I'll
tell you a joke :-)

Lars Vagle 
E-mail: vagle@hsr.no    (if that does not work, use vagle@his.no)
