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Re: creeping consensus

From	Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: creeping consensus
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Date	2013-02-15 06:21 -0400

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On 02/15/2013 06:00 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:29:08 -0800, markspace
> <markspace@nospam.nospam> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
> who said :
>
>> The old Norton
>> Commander program did this, why don't modern file browsers do it?
>
> I have forgotten how it works, just that it was faster than what we do
> today.
>
> It is sad that we have to look back to DOS for NC,  QDOS and Lotus
> Magellan for best of breed.
>
> Magellan indexed files and wrote super fast viewers to you see the
> first page of pretty well any file instantly.  It also let you write
> boolean expression on its content indexes  to bring up sets of files
>
Mac OS X Spotlight, as one example. It indexes designated directories or 
volumes, brings up matching file sets on a content-based search. Finder 
already handles file preview without actually launching the app per se.

AHS

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creeping consensus Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 00:13 -0800
  Re: creeping consensus markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-15 00:29 -0800
    Re: creeping consensus Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2013-02-15 11:06 +0200
      Re: creeping consensus Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-24 17:46 -0500
        Re: creeping consensus Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-02-26 15:02 +0000
    Re: creeping consensus Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-15 05:57 -0400
    Re: creeping consensus Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 02:00 -0800
      Re: creeping consensus Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-15 06:21 -0400

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