here is the fast 'grep/egrep' package sent to comp.sources and u. c. berkeley. included are the prerequisite routines developed by henry spencer of univ. of toronto -- these are also part of the comp.sources archive. i've already updated spencer's care package to incorporate three fixes which have appeared in the same forum. the makefiles are configured for bsd 4.3 and sys5 unix. they assume that the spencer regexp() is not already in a system library -- read the makefile comments if this is not the case. for stock 4.3 sites, apply the diff 'diff.egrep.y.bsd' to the existing source in /usr/src/usr.bin/egrep.y and re-make. this adds full support for the -i option. the procedure is then: make sh eg.shell # amusement make install ames!jaw