[TraX]   TraX   [FastTraX]

TraX finds stuff...

This file is a manual for using the TraX utility on BeOS.
TraX is a tool for finding files on your Disks.
Its features include:

This manual includes information for users and developers.
Sections marked with   contain information for users.
Sections marked with   contain information for developers.


Contents

   Using FastTraX  

   Using TraX  

   The Results Window  

   Scripting TraX  

   Globs  

   Regular Expressions  


Move information, particular developer information needs to be written, but at this stage is has been more important to me to get this into the hands of users. I intend to document the code a fair bit more, and give some details for anyone who wants to contribute, but for now, this is it.

Documentation Copyright (C) 1999, Tim Vernum.
Images Copyright (C) 1999, with the exception of the User and Developer Icons, Copyright Be Inc.
All rights reserved.

Tim Vernum      27th June 1999


Footnotes

"any file-system type"
Searches FAT & BFS drives. Can theoretically search any file-system that BeOS can mount with a POSIX interface

"High Speed"
TraX is based upon GNU findutils, which are very fast.
I believe that libfind.so, which TraX uses to find files is close to the fastest way to find files without having precached information (such as indices)
Thus TraX will not be as fast as a BeOS query using an index, but because TraX doesn't rely on indices, it can offer more features.