Re: Search tool

Rich Bowen wrote:
> John Nolan wrote:
> > 
> > It's a file tool, isn't it.  It should go under
> > some kind of file or document category.
> 
> But it's also a web tool. You can give it a directory, or a URL, and it
> recurses from there. 

I agree.  Most (many ?) web-schlurping programs can be 
told to treat the local file system as a 'web site'
using URLs of the form 'file:/...'.  Given that, the
Web file paradigm is more general than the "normal"
file paradigm.

-- 
John Porter