[plug] FastFind

[cthart at gbs.com.au]

Mike,

FindFast is evil.

As I understand it:

It indexes content of documents rather than location.
It uses a mscreate.dir file in each directory so if you
want to do a recursive find it still has to traverse the
filesystem.
By default it only covers documents of Microsoft products.
It works by running a background process all the time, rather
than as an At job (NT's equivalent of cron).

Cheers,

Colin








Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au> on 10/08/99 12:35:01

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Ah - found it - actually "FindFast", not fastfind, and comes with
MS_Office. Whats the joke?
Is it safe to use on NT4?

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > Mike Holland wrote:
> >> To link this to Linux, anybody know a "locate/updatedb" equivalent for
> >> win32?
>
> > Isn't it called Microsoft FastFind? *grin*
>
> He probably wants something that doesn't trash the hard disk from time
> to time.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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