Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:11:05 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help with mkid/lid and Hebrew text
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On 8 Dec 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Mkid? Lid?

These are from the GNU ID-utils package.  Here's a short description
from README.dos in the package (v2gnu/idu32b.zip):

    ID Utilities are used to scan a directory tree, create a database
    that records which tokens appear in which files, and then query that
    database, thus making a variety of text-searching tasks much simpler
    and faster.  A typical example of a query is ``list all files that
    #include a particular header file''.  Another example is to search
    mail archives for certain keywords.

    While many such tasks can also be performed by using text search
    tools, such as the programs from the Grep package, id-utils are much
    faster because they don't need to scan the files.  An important
    advantage of using id-utils is that you can query the database even if
    the original files aren't available; this comes in particularly handy
    when the files are maintained in a compressed archive.