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                 WinGREP Readme File
                     Version 1.50
               Hurricane Software, Inc.
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WinGREP is a shareware program intended to make searching for
strings quick and painless.  Regular Expressions are simple
and fast to create with no characters to memorize or confuse.


GREP History
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In the "grand old days", UNIX had a handy utility called GREP
(it still does for those of you using UNIX of some form).
GREP would use Regular Expression syntax to help you quickly
find pieces of text embedded in a text file.  Its output was
simply redirected to the CRT.  This utility eventually made
its way to the DOS world and worked in a very similar fashion.
Then along came Windows with it GUI (gooey) interface.  Many
GREP-like utilities have been created for the windows
enviroment.  But most of these utilities don't take advantage
of the rich user interface features available in Windows.
This is where WinGREP comes in.

WinGREP has an interface that does away with the old notion of
command line GREP utilities.  It contains the features that
you have come to expect in quality professional software :
Hint lines and fly-over help, 3-D dialogs and controls, easy
to use controls to minimize your typing, and integrated
on-line help.


Why WinGREP
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WinGREP was built with the way that a programmer works in
mind.  Programmer's often need to find a very specific piece
of text in a sea of source code. The only practical way of
doing this is to have a utility sift through all of the files
for you.  This is where most utilities stop. You simply see
the results of the search.  Some even let you view/edit the
file.  This is where WinGREP goes the extra step to save you
an extra step.  When you have found the piece of text that you
were looking for, you obviously want to do something with it.
You may want to change it or move it somewhere or simply look
at the context in which it is used.  It would make sense that
the best place to do this is in your standard working
enviroment.  Your enviroment has the colors customized the way
you like, the keys are set-up just right, and you know that if
you save a file in your enviroment that you don't have it open
somewhere else.  WinGREP gives you the option to your IDE to
view the results of a search.

After a search has completed, WinGREP displays the results in
a heirarchial listbox of the names of the files that contain a
match and each match.  When you choose "Open" (either by
double-clicking or the Open Button) while on a match, WinGREP
will open that file for you.  How it is opened is up to you.

      1 - You can have it opened in the Hurricane Editor - a
          full features text editor supplied with WinGREP.
          (Unregistered users need to download this file
          seperatley - HEDIT150.ZIP).  The file is opened and
          it is postitioned on the line number of the match.

      2 - You can open it in the editor of your choosing (like
          NOTEPAD.EXE or CodeWright). Paramaters can be
          supplied for both the filename and line number

      3 - You can have WinGREP syncronize your IDE automatically!
          If the file is not already open in your IDE, then it
          is opened, otherwise the open copy is brought to the
          front. Then the IDE is positioned on the match. At
          this point you can simply return to work without any
          further delays.


WinGREP Features
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WinGREP has many features that make it a useful addition
to any users tool belt.

    New featires in version 1.50 :

       * Resizable main window

       * History lists for File Masks and Search Expressions

       * Preview Window - See several lines of text for each
         search match.

       * Standalone text editor - Hurricane Editor.  The
         internal editor has been made it's own executable. It
         is still tightly integrated with WinGREP.

       * Load and Save search results sets

    Features :

       *  Integration in many IDE's.

       *  Full online help file with regular expression
          examples.

       *  Full featured multi-file text editor included.

       *  Easy directory navigation.

       *  Search multiple filemasks at the same time.

       *  Regular expression search support.

       *  Regular expression button bar assistant with
          quick hints and examples. Creating regular
          expressions is simple with WinGREP!

       *  Good status indicator for long searches. It tells
          you the file currently processing, the total files
          processed and the number of matches found so far.

       *  Fly-over hints for all controls and right-click
          menus for quick access.

       *  Can automatically become a "Stay-on-Top" window.

       *  Very fast searching.  WinGREP can process a long
          search as fast or faster than many command line GREP
          utilities.

       *  The search results list is updated as the search
          progresses enabling you to stop the search when you
          see the file of interest (Searches can be cancelled).

       *  Only $29.00 to register.

 WinGREP is intended to aid you in your quest to create great
 software.  It can enable you to quickly find the information
 you are looking for and then helps you return to your
 favorite enviroment sooner so you can be more productive.


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