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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 96 17:16:04 GMT
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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 problem is not one of transfer time, since the administrators have kindly
- > provided a compressed version, but one of manageability after dowloading the
- > file. I'm sure that a 1.5Meg file is quite a handful for 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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