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Gerry Key writes
> Is it true that the Digital Librarian for NeXTStep 3.0 still won't  
(as NS  
> 2.2 wouldn't) index directories with a suffix of .mbox?  Is there a  
reason  
> for this?  Is there a work-around, short of running ixbuild from the  
> command line?  
> 

If your .mbox's are big enough to need indexing, they are big enough to  
have problems with them indexed too.  Remember that DL loads the entire  
file.  It's not clever enough to keep mail messages separate.

Suggest that instead you use agrep.  (Available at fine ftp sites  
everywhere)  Agrep (approximate grep) allows you to do things like  
this:
     agrep -d '^From ' 'breakdown;internet' mbox
          outputs all mail messages (the pattern '^From '
          separates mail messages in a mail file) that contain
          keywords 'breakdown' and 'internet'.
     agrep -2 -c ABCDEFG foo
          gives the number of lines in file foo that contain
          ABCDEFG within two errors.
     agrep -1 'abc[0-9](de|fg)*[x-z]' foo
          outputs the lines containing, within up to one error,
          the string that starts with abc followed by one digit,
          followed by zero or more repetitions of either de or
          fg, followed by either x, y, or z.


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