On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:50 -0400, Andrew Fisk wrote: > If Google Toolbar works for Windows users, and Mac users can use > Spotlight, I think that we are leaving the *nix users out in the cold > with the find, sed unzip option, but being wonderful thing that open > source is, google comes up with all kind of interesting looking tools > for indexing & searching documents -- all for free! > > As an alternative, and I know this may seem a little old fashioned, > but I have a folder for my customer info -- and a folder inside that > for each customer and then folders for each project -- it makes > finding things fairly easy and it's the one folder I KNOW is going to > be backed up. >
Searching for the rest of us can be done within OOo for the most part: http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html http://www.danielnaber.de/loook/ Docsearcher is standalone and platform independent. For more use, google. I got Results 1 - 10 of about 111,000 for search tools for odt files?. (0.39 seconds) -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
