On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:09, rikona wrote:
> Hello Jack,
> 
> Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 9:11:31 AM, you wrote:
> 
> JC> I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software.
> 
> If your work requires software that only runs on Win, that's a BIG
> sacrifice. :-)
> 
> JC> The Bat! might be a really really good email client, but I can't
> JC> even imagine how it could be enough better than Evo for me to use
> JC> it.
> 
> Try it, you might like it. :-) [Hides awaiting flaming response. :-)]
> 
> JC> The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that
> JC> blow their MS counterparts out of the water.
> 
> One of my key programs is DTsearch, a rather powerful search
> engine/viewer. Would you know of a linux program that is (hopefully)
> more powerful, or even comparable? I'd like to find one.

not sure what you want to do, but: 
dtsearch makes a version of their engine for Linux. Presumably it isn't
far to a desktop client.
swish-e looks great and is on my to-try list.
ht::dig is kinda lame, but generally works.
between find, locate and grep -r I haven't come up with a need for a
search client for my local system. I can accept that I'm a freak though.
if your data is in a database or can get there, finding or writing a
search interface from your favorite language is really not hard.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...


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