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Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 [message #35825]

Fri, 01 August 2003 14:08

R.G. Stockwell
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Registered: July 1999

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"James Kuyper" <kuyper@saicmodis.com> wrote in message
news:3F2AB601.392C9ED6@saicmodis.com...
> William Thompson wrote:
> ...
>> Are you sure you mean "search", and not "find"? If you look at the user
forums
>> on the Adobe web site, you'll see a lot of discussion about search not
being
>> available on linux. Apparently, it has something to do with the search
function
>> software belonging to a third party.
>
> Sorry, I thought you were using "search" as a synonym for "find". The
> distinction was mentioned in Justin's original message, but you didn't
> retain that part of his message, and I had forgotten about it. I gather
> it's mainly a matter of speed, as a result of indexing?
>
> The Linux version's "find" can search a 776 page document (the largest
> size I have available) in 30 seconds on my machine at work. How large is
> the IDL help file, in PDF format?

The Ref guide alone is 4090 pages and that is only 28M of the entire 111
Megs of
help files (idl6.0 win2000)

Cheers,
bob

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		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 01 August 2003 14:08
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: James Kuyper on Fri, 01 August 2003 11:48
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: David Fanning on Fri, 01 August 2003 09:34
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: William Thompson on Fri, 01 August 2003 09:03
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: btupper on Thu, 31 July 2003 17:11
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: James Kuyper on Thu, 31 July 2003 16:11
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: JD Smith on Thu, 31 July 2003 15:09
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: William Thompson on Thu, 31 July 2003 14:57
		Re: Searching PDF help in IDL 5.6 By: William Thompson on Thu, 31 July 2003 14:35

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