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Text search with Boolean and NEAR or proximity operators. ANSI/OEM search and conversion on the fly which is not unimportant since there is a lot of old DOS text around and umlauts and accents may give problems here. Sets of found files can be saved. Ther
Who needs WanyWord and why? If you merely need to search for two words or word combinations within a few files or directories, you don't need WanyWord. Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP's built-in search program will do the job. But if this is not enough, if you must find not just the haystack but also the needle in it and want to search for words within a sentence, a line or a page, WanyWord is is all you need (but read about the COMPETITORS). If you want to study the Bible or Shakespeare, there are CD-ROMs with search programs. But those programs can only be used for the text(s) on those CD-ROMs. WanyWord can be used for any text anywhere and by anybody. There are no copyright problems. Schools and libraries with small or nonexistent budgets may therefore find it of interest. Also if the database program you use to store odds and ends is not quite what you want, WanyWord is worth a look. A number of freeform database programs can store odds and ends, the problem is that they assume that you think and work like the programmers who wrote them. If you do, look no further, you are in luck. If not, WanyWord may be what you need, for WanyWord does not assume anything about your little grey cells or your work habits. It simply assumes that there is text (preferably ASCII, RTF or HTM) and that it is found in a file, in a page, in a line or within a sentence. WanyWord can find text within any kind of file (except compressed file other than ZIP) but it can only show ASCII, RTF and HTM, Open Office text and Spread sheets and to some degree XML (version 5.00 will be better with XML). It is however possible to start an appropiate viewer/editor from within WanyWord and WanyWord understands OLE. WanyWord understands UNIX/LINUX, MacIntosh anmd Windows, that it, it understands the End-of-Lines. I don't have a MacIntosh and as a penguin I am a beginner. So don't trust me here.
Who does not need WanyWord and why Those who need to search more than 60 Mb of text. And please also remember that WanyWord is totally literal minded. If there is a line feed in the middle of a searched for text then that text will not be found because the line feed characters (in Windows ASCII 013,010) have not been written in the search string. For most people this is not a problem. But if you need to search in old DOS texts where often every line ends with a line feed or if you make your living by programming home pages, you should keep this problem in mind. The interface for the new WanyWord 5.00 will be improved to make it easier, but computer programs don't do what they should. They do what they have been told.
WanyWord can be used as a cardfiler. It has a TXT/RTF editor which understands OLE and which can sort words, lines and pages. It also has recursive search/replace. You can search for characters that are not on the keyboard (including page breaks and EOLs) and you can replace them if you wish. There is very strong sorting, you can define the sort order if you do not like Microsoft's way of doing things. And there is a built-in browser which uses Microsoft technology which is both good news and bad news.
