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 > so, sebastian, don't give up yet!
i am heartened by your message. sounds hopeful

 > and don't knock vms without looking a little more closely.
oh please, let me...

but i was under the impression that tree searching is just not fast
enough in a real production environment on VMS< simply using
wildcards? am i out of date? Phil demonstrated to me once that finding
files on the TeX Live CD was veeery slow (unless I misremember)

sebastian