Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!pucc!FUCHS From: FUCHS@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Full text search in Webster Message-ID: <8326@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Date: 15 May 89 15:57:36 GMT Reply-To: FUCHS@pucc.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 5 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article Can someone tell me why when I do a search on certain words (e.g. pterodactyl) I get the definition when I set preferences to boldword index but I do not get it when I set Pref. to Full-text search. One would think that the full text search would produce a superset of the boldword search. The full-text search does find the definition of pterosaur which references pterodactyl.