Michael,

It's really aggravating to not be able to search for 3 letter words on the MOI forum... particular when searching for file formats as the search term. I know WHY its limited to 4, but please consider a different way of allowing users to search (permit known 3 letter words, a stop list of 3 letter words, etc). However, I realize that you may be bound to whatever the forum software has set up.

thanks,

Nick

Try the " Search this site using Google: " option

Well how about that! Good enough. thanks. :-)

Hi Nick - it wasn't so much a limit of the forum software itself, but rather of the MySQL database itself...

But that limit is something that I can adjust in the database server. I have done that so now you should be able to search for 3 letter words such as "dxf" using the built-in forum search now.

The google search method would also work, but I don't think that Google has indexed every single bit of the entire forum, while the built-in one will definitely search through every single post.

- Michael

Nice! Thanks. Thats been bugging me for months, and I usually shrug it off....

but today, after I nearly threw something across the room when that error message came up, I figured it was worth an inquiry. lol :-)