DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM "SEARCH" ----------------------------------- SEARCH is a program that searches for printable ASCII blocks in a file. It can optionally search for up to 100 keywords. It uses the CSI in special mode for input. The default extension is .DSK and the following options can be used: /T to direct output to the terminal, /P to direct output to the printer, /F to direct output to a file; SEARCH will prompt for a filename. If none of these options is used, no output will be given, but SEARCH gives a count of the probable number of printable ASCII blocks. /K to enter keywords that have to be searched for; enter to terminate the input of keywords. /S to specify the first block to be read. /E to specify the last block to be read. /A:VAL to change the percentage of printable ASCII characters that have to be in each block to consider it as a printable ASCII block. This percentage is the ratio of printable ASCII characters and non-zero bytes in a block. The default percentage is 75%, while /K sets it to zero unless /A specifies otherwise. SEARCH can for example be used to find files that are lost because of a directory crash. (c) H.Reints, 1983