[ntp:hackers] hackers] Working with NTP code...

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.org
Wed Oct 2 13:24:54 UTC 2013


On 10/2/2013 1:40 AM, David J Taylor wrote:
> From: Danny Mayer
> []
> I have a Windows version of grep and it doesn't come from the cygwin
> package. I sometimes forget other people don't have it. However with
> Visual Studio you are better of using it's own search capabilities as
> they are quite powerful if you are looking for something in your project
> or the includes from windows. grep is a great tool for some things
> especially as you can pipe things into it, but for working on projects
> like NTP I use what Visual Studio has to offer.
> 
> Danny
> ===================================
> 
> I don't have a Windows grep, but would like to know where your
> non-cygwin version was from.

I can only tell you that it's dated from 1995! I just tried it out and
found that it won't run on my Windows 7 box. It might have come on one
of my Altavista CD's. I'll have to dig around for it and see if I have
the source code. I do have a copy of ntwhich source.

> 
> I also use MS Visual Studio and agree about its search capabilities.
> However my problem is usually knowing /what/ to look for and, once I've
> found it, the next problem is in reading and trying to understand the C
> code!

I can't help with that!

Danny



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