Re: Search tool

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 04:21:17PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> John Erjavec V wrote:
> > 
> > At 10:44 AM 11/16/99 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > >I misunderstood a customer's instructions, and spent two days putting
> > >together a really nice search tool that was not at all what they wanted.
> > >Sheesh. So, I figured I'd put it up on CPAN, and start over.
> > 
> > Don't you just hate when that happens.  At least you still have something
> > that works out of the deal, though.
> > 
> > >Any thoughts on where we should put this?
> > 
> > Well, it works (IMHO) either under the Web category, or under the
> > UNIX:System_administration category.  Not particularly well in either, but
> > there's not something for both, as far as I can tell.
> 
> Works just fine on Win32 also, so the UNIX category would be rather
> misleading.

    I think that this yearns for a new category.  How about Search or Find,
depending on whether you're one of those the-glass-is-half-empty kind of
people or the-glass-is-half-full kind of people?

    Peace,
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