Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Carl, this sounds like a very useful update to u2. I think for most of
us, having an indexing utility for filenames is good enough;
usually, for finding content, a non-indexing utility is good
enough.


I would be interested in learning more about fuzzy searching. We are all
getting used, through Google, to searching more sloppily. Surely, by now,
Google's successful approach must have been analyzed and described? Are
there find-content utilities available that take advantage of Google-like
fuzzy searching? Are there even better techniques than Google's?



At 11/03/2014 02:19, you wrote:


Reply to note from Kari Eveli
 Mon, 10 Mar 2014

20:13:29 +0200


> For filename search, there is this database-driven program:

>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/locate32/; eudora="autourl">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/locate32/

>


LOCATE32 is top-notch. It comes with a command-line version,

LOCATE.EXE, which makes a perfect fit with XyWrite. The next release

of U2 has a frame, LOCATE, which provides a seamless interface

between LOCATE.EXE and the Xy Cmline: You enter LOCATE

[string] (where "[string]" is a bit of the
desired

filename), and the search results are imported directly -- and at

lightning speed -- into XyWrite. (The key to LOCATE[32]'s speed is

its filename database, which should be updated daily as an automated

task.)


Also not to be ignored is FINDSTR.EXE, the built-in Win32 grep

utility. There's a U2 frame, GREP, which uses FINDSTR to provide

GREP functionality from the CMline -- also in the forthcoming

release of U2.


--

Carl Distefano

cld@xxxxxxxx