View Single Post
Old 24th Aug 2019, 10:19 pm   #5
emeritus
Dekatron
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK.
Posts: 5,316
Default Re: Word in file search utility, DOS

I paid 10p for a copy of "Field Guide to MS DOS 6.2" in a charity shop some years ago. A quick scan through it suggests that the commands FIND, FOR, and SORT, together with "piping" , can be used to search for text strings in a multiple files. Examples are given. Scans of the relevant pages attached.

No personal experience with using any of these commands. I have only used the book once, when the driver software for a LCD monitor for my WIN 98 PC managed to mess up the system so badly that I had to operate the PC in command mode, echoing the screen to a printer, to get it working again.

I loved Xtree Gold: we used to use it at GEC in the early 1990's. I still have a copy of the software on a floppy, but I couldn't get it to run on my PC.
Attached Files
File Type: pdf MSDOS 6.2.pdf (1.27 MB, 90 views)

Last edited by emeritus; 24th Aug 2019 at 10:24 pm.
emeritus is offline