Reading this question I tought at once of the grep family. Something along the lines of % grep -B 2 pattern *.log > outfile which should do the trick. Then I saw Windows 2000 so I thought the PPT or the utilities 'find' or 'findstr' could help out. But sadly all of them don't support any of the context options (like -2 or -B 2 or -C) which I considered standard for these kind of utilities.

Can somebody tell me why these were not included in the PPT - to be more precise in tcgrep??

-- Hofmator