Index Files Search Words 6.01

Index Files Search Words 6.01 is designed to help you in indexing and searching HTML files, text files or files of a similar kind (such as XML files) in a hierarchy of files either on CD, a hard disk or some similar storage medium (not files on an online website).

This software does not simply create a list of files or simply search for character strings in a file. It indexes every word in every file, and any file containing a particular set of words (or any of those words, or an exact phrase) can be found by searching for those words.

This software consists of two modules:

1. An index module which is used to create an index of the files to be searched.
2. A search module which is used to search those files.

The index module is capable of indexing a hierarchy of over 1000 HTML files, totalling over 20 MB, and containing over 50,000 different words. Even with that number of different words the search module returns results in a few seconds. The results are displayed by the software and can also be displayed in a page in your default web browser, with links to the files containing the words searched for.

Possible uses for this software:

1. Searching a single file.
2. Searching the source files of your website (on your PC).
3. Searching the chapters of a book or the sections of a report.
4. Searching the HTML files on a CD-ROM.

This software is mainly intended to be used to search for words and phrases in a set of files which is permanent or does not change much (though minor editing of the files will not affect performance and the set of searchable files can be moved).

It may also be used with a temporary set of files, in the sense that you might just want to search a particular set of HTML (or other text-like files) for a short time. If there are fewer than 100 files that you wish to search, containing fewer than 10,000 different words, then the index module will create an index file in about a minute and you can then search those files to obtain results as above.

Requirements:

This software will run under all versions of the Windows operating system from Windows 98 to Windows XP and Vista with at least 64 MB of RAM. Installation in each case requires about 3 MB of disk space. The sizes of the index and data files, which are produced by the index module and used by the search module, depend on the number of files indexed and the number of different words found in those files, and ranges from less than 40 KB to more than 40 MB.

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