P3D Re: Finding articles in one's local copy of archives (fast easy and cheap)

[Steve Berezin <sbere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kersenbrock wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>         I've tried yet another method that seems to work really
> well and is both FREE and easy to use.
> 
>         Ever used the "Alta Vista" web search engine?  Well
> you can run the same search engine on a Win95 or a Windows NT
> machine.
> 
>         It's available free from:
> 
>         http://www.altavista.digital.com/av/content/searchpx.htm
> 
> I downloaded it over the weekend and tried it.
> 
> It "finds" things quite quickly, and in the same "form" as the
> Alta Vista Web search engine.  In fact, you use your web brower
> to use it.
> 
>         Just a thought.
> 
> Mike K.
> 
> P.S. - On a slow modem, it may take a while to download, but so far
>        it's worth it (okay okay it didn't take me long to download
>        it, but even if it did, I'd still think it worth it).  It also
>        indexes acrobat files, and just about any word processing file.
>        The list is online and is very large.


Mike,

I think this URL is expired.  Do you know where to get it? 
I think it is a freebee in some magazine like PC Week or
something. -- 
Steve Berezin
mailto:sbere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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