Search engine application

[James Lewes]

on 5/11/03 4:47 PM, Wilhelm Sanke at sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote:

> In response to James Lewes I wrote today:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> There are several such programs around for Windows at least (although I
>> cannot name a specific one just now; try a
>> search) that do comprehensive text search across all files on a drive, so
>> another question would be, why would you
>> want to develop such application with Metacard/Revolution?
>> 
> James,
> 
> here is a program that fits to nearly all of your specifications. Have a
> look:
> 
> 
> 
>> Super Text Search 2.5
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Super Text Search is a utility which enables you to quickly search files for
>> text. You can search anything from a single
>> file to an entire drive for any text you need to find.
>> 
>> Both plain text files (program source code, batch files, HTML files, etc.)
>> and binary files (word processing and
>> spreadsheet documents, databases, even executable programs) can be searched,
>> as can files archived inside ZIP, CAB
>> or RAR files.
>> 
>> In addition to simple searches for words or phrases, the program allows you
>> to use regular expressions (as found in
>> Grep utilities, which will be familiar to the more technical among you) to
>> perform more advanced searches including
>> wild cards and various types of pattern matching.
>> 
>> After performing a search, files containing the search text can be viewed,
>> edited or opened in their associated
>> applications. Search results can also be printed or exported to a text file.
>> 
> 
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because i would like to be able to control the interface

james