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Re: REQ: Document database or document indexing
de Franklin 05/31/2006 01:27
On 30 May 2006, Al Klein<rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:24:10 +0100, Franklin <franksays@nomail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Al, I tried to say that the content of files may not be ASCII so it
>>is useless performing a simple XP-like search on the contents:
>
>> "I am using XP. Unfortunately XP search/find will
>> not do this because it operates on either (a) the
>> file name or (b) the content which may not be ASCII.
>
>>XP search has two boxes: one for name searches and one for content
>>searches. Neither is my first priority.
>
> Windows can only handle ASCII coding (or UTF-8). If the files are
> non-ASCII (say, EBCDIC), they're not text to Windows so nothing
> written for Windows can search them as text. Not Explorer's search
> boxes, not DOS's find command, not Word, Access, Open Office -
> nothing. Not even a program written to do exactly what you want -
> to files with ASCII text in them.
You are correct. That is why I want an app which will recognise its
own keywords and permit me to retrieve by various combinations of
keys for keyfirelds. The app is likely to have some sort of forms
GUI and a database-like back end.
Susan has steered me in the right direction by pointme at this
http://tinyurl. It's embarassing to realize I overlooked
Pricelessware's own listing!