Re: file searching/vista help

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On 17 Apr 2008 at 10:57, J R FOX wrote:

> --- flash  wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > Windows Commander can search for content in files
> > (regardless of
> > extension, also without extension). I'm not sure
> > whether it indexes,
> > since I don't know what indexing is--I never used
> > this function.
> >
> > 
>
>
> I think a number of programs like the old ZyIndex
> needed to first make an index by scanning your vast
> collection of target documents, *before* it could do
> searches ?  And wasn't that also a prerequisite for
> the functionality of NB programs Orbis and Ibid ?
>
>
> Jordan
>

Nope, Orbis is a text indexing and retrieval program, and it is
lightning-fast. No outside programs needed. Ibidem has its own
indexing capabilities, but because its files are pure text, one can
index them in Orbis databases as well.

Hope this helps.

Bill TeBrake