Re: search tool?

[Lars Høj <lars -at- LHI -dot- DK>]

If the files have some kind of textual content (Word, Excel,
Access etc.) you might want to try AltaVista Discovery 1.1.

http://discovery.altavista.com/

We are using it to get direct access to approx. 6 GB of MS
files and files processed with Transit (a translation tool).

It indexes all files, and with a daily maintenance indexing
(with can be performed as a background task) all users can
update the common index on a server with their personal
files.

It finds a specific file in a few seconds.

(I just checked searching for "Quotation" - 14 hits with 33
occurences in 2 seconds - from files with types like HTML,
DOC, QXD, PDF, DOC, TXT, and Outlook Mail).

The search method is like in normal AltaVista. And it is
free...

Kind regards

Lars Hoej

LARS HOEJ Informatik
Baunestien 4 - DK-3460 Birkeroed - Denmark
Tel: +45 4582 8500 - Fax: +45 4582 85 01
mailto:lars -at- lhi -dot- dk - http://www.lhi.dk

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[mailto:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]On Behalf Of Scott
Snider
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 2:36 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: search tool?

I am trying to organize a large amount of my company's
internal
documentation. This documentation (made up primarily of
microsoft
applications) is currently stored in a single directory on a
lan drive.

Given the large amount of files in this directory, I'm
looking for a way for
any member of our company to easily hunt down any specific
file within that
one directory. I need some advice on what technologies could
do this
effectively.

I'm new with this kind of stuff, and any comments would be
greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.

Scott

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