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- THE GLOBAL SEARCH FUNCTION
-
- The Buddy System For AmigaDOS has a global search feature. This will
- allow you to search all of the text files for a particular string of text.
- The AmigaDOS commands, SEARCH & SORT will actually be used for this
- function, so, they must be in your C: directory. When the function
- completes, a standard Buddy System Text file will be displayed. This text
- will list all of the text that contained the text string that you
- specified. The file itself is called:
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- `T:SearchText`
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- You can view the contents of this file (if the file exists as a result of a
- previous search) at any time by clicking the above, highlighted name. You
- can also use the BookMark function while you are displaying the file, so
- that you can repeatedly call it up by using the Return key.
-
- To access the global search function, Press:
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- Ctrl Spacebar
-
- and enter a search string.
-
-
- NOTE: This process may take a significant amount of time, if you are
- operating from a floppy drive system, due to disk access speed.
-
- Once The Search is completed you can start clicking on the file names in
- the list. This will take you into each of the text files where a match was
- found. Use:
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- Left Alt Spacebar
-
- to search for the word you specified (The global search word is kept
- separate from the search word used during normal text display). Each time
- you press Left Alt & Spacebar, the search will continue through the current
- text.
-