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This PM version of grep is designed as a user friendly application. It is designed for a multitasking environment and the search takes place on a separate thread to minimize the time that the wait icon is displayed. It will also run in a low priority idle mode to reduce the impact the search has on the other active programs.

The often cryptic command line options have been replaced with easy to use menu selections. The output of the search is sent to a PM window and the user has easy access to all of the information that was found by the program.

To reduce the overhead, the results are buffered until the search is completed and then written to the results window. To indicate that the search is still active, the small icon at the left of the title bar will change color as an activity indicator. The color change depends on the search results, so it does not change at a fixed rate.

Most of the usage information is available as online context sensitive help. Pressing the F1 key will bring up the help information about the current menu selection.

The shareware version of DH-Grep-PM is fully functional, but a registration prompt will be displayed when the program is started and when it is closed.

Registered users of DH-Grep-PM will have access to two additional executable files that were compiled with the 486 and 586 compiler options. These versions will offer some performance improvement for users with 468, Pentium, or equivalent CPUs.