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- From: jrstrai@freeway.net (jrstrai)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 02:25:43 GMT
- Organization: "Freeway (TM) - America's Public Information Network"
- Message-ID: <1546.6622T486T665@freeway.net>
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- >Olatunbosun S (be584@city.ac.uk) led us to believe
- >in <4g1t30$n6h@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk> that...
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- >> Isn't it about time to split into smaller parts the INDEX file on Aminet?
- >> the A4000 user let alone the A600 user. I'm using 'vi' on a Sparc station
- >> to scan thru' the INDEX file and it takes a few seconds before the file
- >> even appears on the screen.
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- >The trick is not to load the file into an editor but to scan it from disk.
- >Try Flashfind from Aminet.
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- >FlashFind1.2.lha util/cli 12K 0+Faaast text search tool (2.5MB in
- >10sec)
- >--
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- Another nice program for reading INDEX is MOST (a textfile reader that
- reads partial chunks of larg files into ram)... using MOST the INDEX file
- appears at once on the screen and can be loaded even using a 1 meg Amiga.
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