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Day Brown wrote:
>
> Its a chronic problem in open source, 

It's not a problem, it's an advantage.  One of the best
things about DOS (and earlier OS) was the diversity.
Different programmers doing things in different ways.
Variety and choice, it was great.

> which has no grand  pope like Gates to lay down the 
> law for a consistent system. 

It is bad that MicroSoft has a strangle-hold on developers.  
It stifles creativity and innovation.  

> Because, when I want to look thru all of the dialogue of 
> a given character, to see if it is consistent, the search 
> thru a single long document is gonzo easier. 

Not necessarily.  IIRC we were talking about text files
(without much formatting).  There are tools available
that search through every file in a directory (rather 
than being limited to a single long document).

> And sometimes, I remember something I want to insert, 
> but can only remember a relevant phrase to search for. 

grep (in BL2) will find it in any file.  For example, I 
frequently use grep to search through every HOWTO on the 
Slackware CD.  It tells me the name of every file containing 
my target string and prints the lines containing that string.

> I've used DEXTER.EXE w/DR-DOS or FREEDOS, and seen it search 
> thru almost a meg of ascii in an eyeblink. 

So does grep. The first search through the HOWTOs (13mb) takes 
a few seconds.  Every search after that is instantaneous.

> The Linux editors which I have seen, aint nearly that fast.

What are the names of those editors?

> I also have copies of Edw. Gibbon, THE DECLINE & FALL OF THE 
> ROMAN EMPIRE, 1.6meg/volume, and again the DEXTER searches are 
> reasonably fast.

For searching such things, links (in BL2) is very fast.
Execute d to start it in local mode, use the arrow keys 
to navigate through directories, press right-arrow when 
you find the target file,  press / to search.

> Sylpheed? sounds nice. part of some browser? 

No.  It's a stand-alone email client (goes well with Opera
or Firebird).  A sylpheed package is available at one of our 
download sites.

Cheers,
Steven