On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Stroller wrote: > On 28 Aug 2007, at 08:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> If you know how to use them, you'll have a lot of fun. > > > > What is this desktop search engine thingy whereof the OP speaks? I > > do not know of such a thing... > > It's like locate, except it indexes the contents of files (rather > than just the names) and it does so immediately the file is saved, > rather than as a cron job.
Seems like a lot of folks are being very helpful and want to assist me in understanding what these Beagle-esque apps do :-) I do know what they are, I just never use them - I prefer grep find locate etc. I was being slightly sarcastic with my comment, with my tongue very firmly planted in both cheeks :-) But hey, maybe some other user who would use such things now know more about them and maybe emerge them alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
