Never mind. Problem solved. XP has an option for indexing while idle. I just
wonder if it creates a full-text index and how sophisticated search really
is. Do more powerful alternatives exist?
Roy
"Roy S Schestowitz" <sch-at-danielsorogon-dot-com@use-address-before-at.com>
wrote in message news:c6l879$26md$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
> Does anybody know a piece of software that will scan my hard-drive for
ASCII
> data (not binary of course) and then build an index like a Web search
> engine? I would like to be able to search my hard-drive not just by
> filenames, but also by tokens that exist in files.
>
> fgrep comes close to doing this, but it traverses the files in real time,
> not off-line, therefore it is extremely slow. I need something that does
the
> computation in advance and builds an information-base.
>
> TIA
>
> Roy
>
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