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> From: Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:14:00 -0000
> 
> Does it use Emacs' locate? Does it work e.g. on MS Windows also? I
> recently tried locate (and ~dired-find-...) but none of them worked:
> they missed some external programs (locate & find).

At least for `find', you can use find-lisp.el, which emulates `find'
in Emacs Lisp.