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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Shakespeare and Librarian: annoying little bug
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Date: 27 Apr 91 03:33:24 GMT
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Chance Brohm complained that Librarian wasn't finding things in Shakespeare.
Nik Anthony Gervae suggested that the problem was the kind of searches,
that it works best when searching for single words, and not short words.

I've had problems with this for a long time, including long single
words (like "fortune" and "perdition").  I think I finally found the
problem -- Literature.bshlf on my machine has its preferences set to
search filenames (not contents) and NOT to use the indexes.

Did I accidentally change the preferences (a bit hard to do, since I
can't save a changed bookshelf unless I'm 'root', I think), or did
my 2.1 system arrive with bogus preferences?  Anyone care to check
how their Literature.bshlf is set up and let me know?  I'll summarize
to the net.

(*** no flame, no gain ***)

So it may still be pilot error, but I'm unimpressed that a tool intended
for humanists is so unforgiving.  A message like "0 found" should be
expanded to tell hapless users (me) how many targets from the shelf
were searched, and whether it searched titles, contents, or both.

Further, why does the app let you click "Search" when you have no
targets selected?  The least it could do is select the leftmost
target on the shelf when you start up...

 -- Mike Morton // P.O. Box 11299, Honolulu, HI  96828, (808) 676-6966 HST
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