Category : File Managers
Archive   : BM.ZIP
Filename : README
This archive is a MSDOS version of an "fgrep" utility ported from
XENIX to Computer Innovations C86 (quite simple, actually). It uses
the Boyer-Moore algorithm for parallel string searches. On XENIX it
really blows the real fgrep program away in performance. However, in
MSDOS, the FIND command is still a bit faster, albeit more limited.
In the archive:
bgrep.exe is the executable C86 program
bm.exe is another executable created with the XENIX/DOS cross-development
system. Note larger executable size.
bm.man is the manual entry.
bgrep is a Makefile, usable with Microsoft MAKE Version 4.0, only slightly
hacked from the UNIX make.
The C86 version seemed at first to run MUCH slower that the Microsoft
version until I changed the file opening from an ASCII open to a BINARY
open. After that, the times seemed very close, with C86 having a slight
edge. I'd put money on the next version of C86 leaving Microsoft C in
the dust.
Clay Haapala
Lee Data Corporation
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/