On 7/6/04 7:12 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 07/04/2004 02:32 PM, Russell Carr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> Are there >>>> any plans to make e-rage work with the new search in Tiger? >>> >> Come on guys. The developers just got their first look at Tiger. Give them a >> chance to look at it before badgering them about their plans. They will need >> awhile to see what Tiger can and can not do. And then some more time to >> decide on what features might be good for their own products. It's way to >> early to be asking them how Tiger will effect their current applications. > > Well, I was just after the general theory, can E-rage's lump file database > be something that can in theory be searched with the new OS X search > features. I am sure they can estimate a answer to that question. Entourage's database is encoded is some airtight proprietary and cryptic encoding. It's not plain text. Open a smallish database in TextEdit and you'll see for yourself. The file system's Spotlight search method is text-based. So to work with Entourage's database, MS would have to write translators more-or-less the same as its present search methods, except maybe they could be called from outside Entourage. If anything, that would probably make them a tiny bit slower than the current in-house search. I can't see the point in that. Maybe there's something they can harness after doing the translation, but I doubt it: I'd bet you either use the OS engine directly in the file system, or you don't. I'd also bet that they'll go on optimizing the database and the search methods as they've done from version to version: I find 2004's searching about 50 times or so faster than X's. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
