Hello, Gord;

19 Jan 04 20:58, Gord Hannah wrote to Art Noble:

 GH> Replying to a message from Art Noble 1:343/41 to Gerold Miller,

 AN>> "ARIN116.ZIP"

 GH> If you have it please send via the internet.

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ARIN.EXE ver 1.16 (10k) rel 31-Jan-96 [DOS].  Distributed in "ARIN116.ZIP"
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This "Finds TEXT STRINGS Inside ARCHIVES" on your hard disk or CD-ROM.
For example: "ARIN /fp  *.zip *.*  document"[will search all the
.zip archives in the current directory, and all their memberfiles (*.*)
for the word "document", stop when found and prompt user to continue
search.]  Note that ARIN also can do archive unpacking `as an Interface
Program to ZIP, ARJ, etc.'  ARIN has No un-archiving code of its own.
You supply your own archive extracting programs.
*Shareware by Davor Zorc / Croatia.  $5/each.  E-mail: davor.zorc{at}fsb.hr
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If that's what you're after, don't overlook A. Pipkin's "Ministry of
Truth" 
utility, 16-bit version MINTR151.ZIP, 32-bit version MTR202B.ZIP.  The 
syntax is slightly different between them, but both can find text strings 
in files inside archives because they can call the appropriate archiver - 
any archiver - as long as it has an output-to-console switch.  Viz., for 
the 32-bit 2.02B version;

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    -z:EXT:PROGNAME:OPTIONS[:EXT:PROGNAME:OPTIONS] ...  unZip files

        The -z option allows compressed files to be decompressed before they
        are scanned. The first parameter, EXT is the extension of the
        filenames which are to be decompressed. PROGNAME is the name of the
        decompression program. The third parameter is the flag required by
        the decompression program to write the expanded data to standard
        output. (This is -c for pkunzip, -p for unzip, -c for gunzip).
        Decompressing the archive to standard output avoids the need to alter
        the compressed file. More than one type of decompressor can be used
        by following the initial parameters by additional parameter sets.
        Writing to a file which has been expanded is not allowed.
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Both versions should be BFDS files and both are freeware.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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