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Pinkham, Jim wrote:
> Kevin, indexed file types are noted below -- and the WDS help also
> describes ways to make the software further extensible through iFilters:
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> "Searchable file types
> Microsoft Windows Desktop Search indexes more than 200 of the most
> common file types, all of which are listed below.
>
> However, Windows Desktop Search cannot index every type of file.
I wonder what this is about. I built an indexer once, and it could open,
read, and index any file on disk. It could index the text in an
otherwise binary file (a visio diagram, a spreadsheet, a word doc, etc).
So if my homemade indexer could do that, and it was just stock VB that
I used to do it, I wonder what's with WDS in this regard?
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