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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:46:06 PST8
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: scroll-search command line utility ?

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Vern Buerg once made LIST for OS/2. I loved LIST for DOS,
but never could find the OS/2 version. It does some/most
of what you ask, but I've not seen it in years.

Anybody?

+++++++++++++++++++
On 3/18/03, Peter Skye wrote, in part:
>I need a command line utility that will open a text file
>and allow me to scroll through it (both forwards and backwards),
>and optionally to search for the first occurrence of a string
>when the file is opened (and possibly search for additional
>occurrences of the string by pressing F1 or somesuch).
>
>For example, typing
>
> scrlsrch SkyePhoneNumbers.txt
>
>would open the SkyePhoneNumbers.txt file and
>allow me to scroll through it, and typing
>
> scrlsrch SkyePhoneNumbers.txt attorney
>
>would open the file and automatically scroll
>to the first occurrence of "attorney".
>
>Does anyone know of such a command line utility?
>
>- Peter
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