XP "SEARCH" does not "FIND"

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Windows XP Professional
program flaw - windows xp pro sp1 (with updates through
03/25/2004 applied)

"SEARCH" within Windows XP fails to find numerical
sequence (66031065, *66031065, *66031065*) within text
document.

Similar "FIND" requests within Win 95 and Win 98se have
always been successful on these files.

I spoke with one of the authors of the documents to be
searched and he suggested that perhaps XP does not search
the binary code in the same way that 95 and 98 does.

Please advise how to correct XP to "FIND" my files.

thank you.
rav53(removethisnospam)[email protected]
 
From a command prompt, you could also use findstr /pis "66031065" *
in the directory that you want to recursively search under.

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rick said:
Windows XP Professional
program flaw - windows xp pro sp1 (with updates through
03/25/2004 applied)

"SEARCH" within Windows XP fails to find numerical
sequence (66031065, *66031065, *66031065*) within text
document.

Similar "FIND" requests within Win 95 and Win 98se have
always been successful on these files.
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I suspect this is invoking a part of explorer that also handles sorting,
treating sequences of digits as if they were numeric entities. That had
a bug when the numbers were too big - up in that sort of range; it was
corrected in XP SP1 IIRC
 
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