Re: st: Windows (& Vista) will not search within do files.

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 04:55 PM 6/21/2007, Rodrigo wrote:
> I like your solution. I should say rather than complex, over-protected
> over-"visualized". Maybe someday we will return to the basics.
>
> DOS lives!! :-)
> Rodrigo.
> [...]
--in response to my message:
> Several people have given useful suggestions. I will tell how I 
> handle this. I do it the old-fashioned way -- in the command prompt 
> using the -find- command. (And I never had the problem Paul 
> mentioned; I wasn't even aware of it.) I may be out-of-date, but to 
> me this is an example of how modern user-interfaces have become so 
> complex that they cause more problems than they solve.
Thank you for that validation. And I agree with your assessment of 
"over-protected" and "over-visualized".

I'm not really a champion of DOS in particular.  (And what we are 
dealing with is really the command environment of Windows, which is 
not exactly the same as DOS.)  I also find DOS (or the Windows 
command environment) to be a bit disappointing, after having worked 
in some others for many years.  What I do prefer is the general 
concept of a command environment -- old-fashioned, but very powerful 
if you know how to use it. Evidently, many others agree, as some of 
the other responses have been about programs that provide various 
alternative command environments under Windows.

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