I just found I have the same problem on a DEC Alpha OSF3.2.
Was OK before the upgrade. I am owner of the files and
stringsearch does not work for me or root.
The *.seqcat files are world readable.
The output looks like:
! STRINGSEARCH from: genpept October 30, 1997 13:58
! searching for: "glycosylase" ..
! Sequences searched: 0
Chris
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