>>>>This works great as long as the files are text files. It does not work on ZIP [or any binary?] files.
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>>>I searched FXP and ZIP files for a text string and it worked fine. What problem do you have?
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>>Hmmm. I did a search for a prticular string in a bunch of .TXT files and got 3 or 4 results. I then searches a group of ZIP files that were created by zipping up each TXT file in there own ZIP file. DOH! It just occurred to me that those ZIP files whose creation I have automated for an update service are encrypted with a password. That would be the problem. Thanks for the kick-start.
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>You wouldn't find that string even w/o encryption because text inside ZIP file is compressed.

So you were searching for a string that was an actual filename stored in a ZIP file?