On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote:

> According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if there is a faster way to search a directory tree for a
> > certain word than "find /dir/ -name "*.txt"|xargs grep -l "theword" " ?
> > I want to do this to make a search engine for my local (LAN) website.
> > Since the site is over 50 megs (I mirror a lot of stuff for local use),
> > and the server is a 486, the search takes more time than I would like.
> > 
> > Is it possible to achieve the same effect using some database, while
> > allowing a search for _ALL_ words, not just a few predefined keywords? If
> > so, how?
> > 
> 
> I know of one archive with a very quick "search engine" as to which engine
> it is i dont know, however if you require i can give you the system
> operators mail address in a persoanl mail. Just let me know!.
> 

I just found a program called ht://Dig at freshmeat. I'll download that
and try it out. If it doesn't work as expected, I'll contact you.

> -- 
> Regards Richard.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
By the way, is your mail setup correct? This is what pine tells me about
your mail, it seems only the From line is correct. All other emails work
great here.

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:32:43 +0000 (GMT)
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