fsearch ╤ FAST pattern-searching MPW¬ tool version 1.04 February 9, 1990
This tool implements a Boyer-Moore-Gosper (with a C optimization) pattern search, which in this implementation is approximately fifteen times faster [15X] (worst case╤with single character patterns and small files╤three times faster; better case╤with six or seven character patterns on a ten megabyte file╤twenty times [20x] faster) than the search tool supplied with MPW¬ 3.x. (Also beats Gofer¬ 2.0 or Microsoft¬ Word 4.0 by the same margins.) Use it when you don╒t need the regular expression capability of the Apple¬-supplied search, or when you just want gut-knotting speed. Will search both the data and resource forks of non-TEXT files, too.