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KWS Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Copy Con Incorporated

Update History

Date Version Release notes
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09/22/95 1.45 When using the window (/W) option, the line before and
after the window are now also displayed.

When using the output (/O) and bold (/B) options together,
KWS.CFG configuration options PRN_ON and PRN_OFF are now
used to send user-defined codes to the output file/device.

09/02/94 1.44 Multiple filespecs may now be specified on the command line.

Binary files can now be skipped during wildcard searches.

Subdirectory searches can now be done with non-wildcard
filespecs.

Unix output format and verbose mode are now supported.

When using the /MT (show filenames & totals) options, the
"Total: 1" message after each filename is now surpressed.

When using the window (/W) option, not all matches were
shown under certain circumstances; fixed.

10/01/93 1.43 When using the /J option, a match on the last line of a file
caused an erroneous "file has been changed" message; fixed.

09/17/93 1.42 An option to shell to a user-specified viewer to display
matches in context has been added.

07/16/93 1.41 The default screen height can now be overridden with the
pause option.

When using the /E option, the echoed command line would
sometimes be truncated; fixed.

07/02/93 1.40 Grep-style regular expression searches are now supported.

The bold highlight option (/B) now highlights all matches on
a given line instead of only the first match.

The pause option can now be used when reading from stdin.

Automatic binary file detection has been improved.

Comments after semicolons are now supported in @filelists.

When using the bold option, BIOS screen writes can now
optionally be used instead of direct screen writes.

Tabs are now handled correctly when using the bold option.

04/23/93 1.33 A configuration file can now be used to specify default
option values.

The totals option can now display totals without displaying
output lines.

03/12/93 1.32 Binary file searches would display too many characters for
each match; fixed.

02/19/93 1.31 4DOS/NDOS 256-character command lines are now supported.

The hexadecimal mode options (/A and /X) now automatically
enable line numbers if /L is not specified.

The window size option can now be used with standard input.

NUL characters (ASCII 0) are now also replaced with spaces
when removing control characters from text files.

When using the window size option, hex offsets were
inaccurate, and CR-delimited files were not being displayed
correctly; fixed.

02/05/93 1.30 15% average speed increase over previous version (v1.21).

Binary files can now be searched for text phrases.

The file offset position can optionally be displayed in
place of line numbers.

File offset or line numbers can be shown in hexadecimal.

A window size can now be specified for searching groups of
lines.

Output can now be displayed onscreen and routed elsewhere at
the same time.

Control characters can now be removed from text files while
viewing or routing.

Typing 'C' at the [more] prompt will now display remaining
files continuously, while pressing the Escape key now skips
to the next file. Typing Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break still exits.

When KWS is run with no arguments, the DOS errorlevel is now
set to 0 instead of 1.