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This version has the following improvements:
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* Use and display Windows paths with the \ character.
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* Expand pathnames with wildcards. (As, contrary to Unix shells, cmd.exe and PowerShell don't expand them.)
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* The -? option displays help.
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* The -V/--version option displays details about this port, and every library used.
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* Support command line arguments with non-ASCII characters in any console code page.
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* Correctly display pathnames and matching strings with non-ASCII characters in any console code page, even if they're not part of the code page.
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* Use PCRE UTF8 option, allowing to search for non-ASCII regular expressions. (Like "." matching 1 character = 1 to 4 bytes!)
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* Support Windows junctions and symbolic links.
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* Support 64-bit statistics even for the 32-bit build. (Allows searching through more than 4GB of files with the x86 build.)
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* The debug version displays the thread number ahead of each debug message.
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* Last but not least, everything (ag.exe with all its dependant libraries) is built with a single make.bat command.
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* Can be built with Microsoft Visual Studio versions 2013 to 2019, without any dependency on outside libraries.
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* Last but not least, everything (ag.exe with all its provided dependent libraries) is built with a single make.bat command.
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Thanks to [Krzysztof Kowalczyk](https://github.com/kjk) who did the original [Native Visual Studio Port](https://github.com/kjk/the_silver_searcher).
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I've actually started from his August 2016 code, and kept improving it.

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