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<TITLE>W3 Search Engine for finding files with their names on FTP.FUNET.FI</TITLE>
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(Updated on 18th Jun 1995 to work with NCSA-HTTPD-1.4.1)

<H2>W3 Search Engine for finding files with their names on FTP.FUNET.FI </H2>

<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/ftp-locate">
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<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="submit">
<INPUT NAME="locate">
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<H2>The key-item accepts UNIX sh <I>glob</I>-patterns with some exceptions, examples:</H2>
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<DT>	<PRE>part_of_file_nam</PRE>
<DD>	matches all files which contain this particular character sequence
	in their names
<DT>	<PRE>*patt*rn*</PRE>
<DD>	matches all files whose name contains the full pattern, but
	unlike with <I>grep</I>, the star (<I>*</I>) does <B>not</B>
	require prefixing with a dot to match any number of any characters
<DT>	<PRE>*patt?rn</PRE>
<DD>	matches any file whose name ends with given <I>patt?rn</I>,
	however the third-last character can be of any character
<DT>	<PRE>msdos/*/winup9</PRE>
<DD>	this does <B>not</B> match anything, because:
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<LI>	there exists a wild-card tag
<LI>	there doesn't exist a wild-card at the begining, so the path-names
	should start with <I>"msdos/"</I>
<LI>	there doesn't exist a wild-card at the end, so the path-names
	should end with <I>"/winup9"</I>
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<DT>	<PRE>*msdos/*/winup9*</PRE>
<DD>	as an opposite to the previous example, this would work
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<H3>Lookup is done on full paths, thus if some directory matches
the search key, a lot of files under it may be listed.</H3>
Thus: <I>Do not</I> search super-common patterns, like:<P>
<PRE>        unix, msdos, win, ...</PRE>

Note: A space character can not be submitted via WWW-browser, thus
use full-form wild-card expressions where you replace space with `?'.

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