Subj : Re: keyword search
To   : Vincent Coen
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Wed Jul 01 2020 20:41:49

Vincent Coen wrote to Alan Ianson:

VC>  > The (K)eyword search item on my file menu on my BBS, a new instance of
VC>  > MBSE BBS V1.0.7.17. I don't know why but any keyword I use to search
VC>  > for files don't turn up anything.
VC> 
VC>  > Do the keyword search command work for you on your BBS?
VC> 
VC> Just tried it with files, files.txt and allfiles.txt and some thing works 
VC> but would use the files search and that does work as just tried
VC> allfiles.zip and it found it.

I get good result with the (S)earch command. It finds files by filename or a
wildcard without any issues.

VC> Don't know what the keyword search does as never used it :)

The (K)eyword search I think searches for the keyword in file descriptions.
It may be broken or maybe it was never implemented, I'm not sure.

It would be a good thing to have if that's doable.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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