[dba-Tech] Windows XP Search

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 18:25:37 CST 2005


Marty,

What does GDS stand for?

Steve Erbach


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:31:21 -0800, MartyConnelly <martyconnelly at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Add this GDS Plugin Larry's Any Text File Indexer, it lets you specify
> extensions to search
> There are a couple of dozen of these plugins for various file types
> http://desktop.google.com/plugins/indexitall.html
> or
> http://www.trivex.net/
> 
> Download Plug-ins
> http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html
> 
> You might want to check here how to do reindexing without a reinstall
> http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.html#thirdtools
> 
> Also GDS only indexes the first 5000 words in a text file less on some
> other file types
> 
> By the way I have an access mdb that takes GDS and puts it output into
> an xml file
> It is just an xmlhttp of a localhost url after you lookup the license
> key in the registry
> sort of
> 'http://localhost:4664/search&s=1ftR7c_hVZKYvuYS-RWnFHk91Z0?q=Google+myoddtext&format=xml
> 
> but I have found a bug in the output UTF-8 xml. The xml GDS generates
> doesn't properly encoded
> some odd MS Windows typographical characters like TM trademark which
> screws up MS xml parsers
> I still have to write some workarounds.
> 
> 
> Steve Erbach wrote:



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