Tony, Sloppy coding at google ?
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:00 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > >> On 2 December 2013 14:02, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:30:29 -0600, Eric Chevalier wrote: > [...] >>> Now suppose I have some sort of index file where the key is the >>> unqualified file name and the data is the path to that file. I can >>> search the index for my file name and it should quickly show me all the >>> locations where a file by that name is located. (Note that Windows has >>> had such a facility since at least XP.) >> As has OS X. Also search by substring of filename, and by content. > > I don't know about OS X, but recent version of Windows have seriousl > "dumbed down" the search interface to the point that it's almost > impossible to distinguish between file names and approximate strings > inside the files. But for that matter, even Google insists on > searching for things vaguely close to what I asked for, rather then > the actual thing. > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
