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You failed to mention "text content" in your previous email, hence my
confusion...
And how dare you call me a hardworking person of business... ;-)
Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: Ned Bedinger [mailto:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com]
Sent: 11 July 2007 20:14
To: Gordon McLean
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: desktop search recommendations
Gordon McLean wrote:
> There are hundreds of different file types, I doubt any single tool
> could index them all.
The last time I looked, most file types stored text content as unmodified
text.
To see this, make a copy of a Word file that has some text in it.
Then, in a DOS Window (aka, "Command Window"), execute this command:
type <your Word filename> | more
Scroll thru a few screenfuls by pressing the spacebar once to scroll once.
You should start to see the text scrolling by after the Word header has gone
past.
Do this with a copy of any file you want. If it has text in it, it is
probably viewable this way.
> No offence Ned, but I doubt your homemade indexer could either.
Heck, Gordo. It is just a matter of opening disk files and looking for
text in them. Machine indexing does not need to know what application
created the file.
>
> Or maybe the documentation says that because legal said to put it in?? ;-)
>
Now we're talking like hardworking people of business. Say hello to the
family for me :-)
All standard disclaimers etc.
Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> "Searchable file types
>> Microsoft Windows Desktop Search indexes more than 200 of the most
>> common file types, all of which are listed below.
>>
>> However, Windows Desktop Search cannot index every type of file.
>
>
> So if my homemade indexer could do that, and it was just stock VB that I
> used to do it, I wonder what's with WDS in this regard?
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