directory "indexer"

[Ted Persky]

It has come to my attention that our staff on the whole spends
a great deal of time during the day searching for that one
certain file in a large directory tree.  For example, try finding
a certain fragment of source code in the X11 distribution.
The people in our lab always seem to be asking each other
to help them locate the path name for "foo.c".

What I'm wondering is whether anyone knows of a tool where
one can define a directory as being the root of a "large file
tree" and have an index of some sort placed at that root.  After
that is created, each person who creates a file in that particular
sub-tree would type in some sort of librarian command to create
an entry in the index with a brief description of the file.
Then the index (in database form, preferably) could be queried
to locate the path name for a desired file.  This would be ideal
if people such as MIT could create this for their distributions
of X, or UNIX vendors for their source distributions.

If you could send me e-mail concerning this, I'd greatly appreciate
it.

Thanx,

	Ted Persky			phone: (301) 496-2963
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