Date:         Fri, 16 May 2003 11:51:02 -0400
Reply-To:     David Johnson <d@DKVJ.BIZ>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         David Johnson <d@DKVJ.BIZ>
Subject:      Re: Slightly OT: Searching SAS programs in Windows XP
Comments: To: HARVEYF1@WESTAT.COM

This "text searching" problem brought out a number of suggestions,
including a very precise response from Gavin in Brisbane providing the text
to update the registry.  Unfortunately, I "bottled out" after backing up my
registry when I questioned again if I wanted to take such a step.  Sorry
Gavin, clean though the solution is, I don't have enough faith in the OS
not to fall over.

Reading the knowledge base article Francis provided, I saw method 2
referred to text indexing within the system settings.  I made the change,
and as a result of a recalcitrant ADSL modem and router rebooted a number
of times.  So it was a little while before I tested the option change.

Now the search utility finds the string in all files, including sas files
compressed into ZIP files.  Very good fix indeed, and I am again able to
stop having to reinvent the wheel.

Kind regards

David Johnson

On Tue, 13 May 2003 13:39:06 -0400, Francis Harvey <HARVEYF1@WESTAT.COM>
wrote:

>Greetings Quentin,
>
>Perhaps this MS KB article can provide some help:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309173
>
>Note the advice in resolution method 1 for altering the
>registry to have specific extensions treated like text files
>for searching.
>
>Francis R. Harvey III
>WB303, x3952
>harveyf1@westat.com