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- Subject: OnLocation Index Engine
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.164017.279@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: goblec@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 15 Dec 92 16:40:17 -0700
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- Organization: Brigham Young University
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- I have a couple of questions about OnLocation.
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- I have been trying to find a nice indexer/scanning program for a
- collection of text files and notes that I have on disk. The
- majority of the files are in MS-Word 5.0 format, although some
- are various text files I ftped from Gutenberg. I posted a request
- for programs that could do nice fast searches and the only replies
- I recieve dealt with Gopher and OnLocation.
- I am using Gopher right now, but it is a pain to select new
- folders to scan. I have to go to a window and delete the current
- folders being scanned and then move around my hard drive to
- select the new files. Gopher also doesn't index files. It does
- a linear scan and thus is relatively slow.
- OnLocation apparently indexs and is quite fast, but doesn't allow
- complex searches. I have no idea how easy it is to select the files
- to scan with OnLocation. This has kept me from purchasing OnLocation.
- I was looking at the documentation for BBEdit though, and it will
- do full grep searches using the OnLocation index engine. Does anyone
- know how this is done? If using the engine is easy or only a matter
- of apple-events, I may just get OnLocation and write a little scanning
- program that sends open AE to MS-word.
- Talking about MS-Word, what AE does it respond to? I know it handles
- the standard Finder-suite. Is there a way to go to a specific place
- in a file? ie. I want to find a word with the OL engine, and then
- have MS-Word open the file with the cursor at that word.
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- Thanks for any help...
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- Clark Goble
- goblec@theory.byu.edu
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