Re: Windows Search won't scan CLS, BAS or FRM for text?
From: Peter Young (youngpa_at_comcast.no.net.spam.please)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:38:04 -0500
"Joseph Geretz" <jgeretz@nospam.com> wrote in message news:OSAEKWvUEHA.712@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Thanks to all for your quick responses.
>
> Jeff, you are correct, it's an XP issue.
>
> It's documented here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm. I've
> applied the suggested fix, rebooted and this is now working correctly.
>
> <gripe>
> I guess the new XP search approach is more powerful since it provides a hook
> to an externally supplied module to search through unknown file types. But
> in the absence of a defined PersistentHandler (which VB6 doesn't implement,
> since it predates XP by a long shot) isn't there a fairly simplistic
> algorithm which can be employed to determine whether a file is a text file?
Yeah, the FindMimeFromData API.
FWIW, there's a decent looking GUI tool here for setting text handler file extensions...
http://www.pilif.ch/stuff/pershchg/index.php
-Pete
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