I do not know of a "shrink-wrapped" front-end that will do what you ask.
But could you write one, or revise an existing one to do this? Of course.
Roy Tennant

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Erik M. Devane wrote:

> Dear All,
>  I know that this is a question that has been asked before, but I've yet to
> find an answer--- is there a swish-e front end which allows you to pass
> directories to the engine, so that when a search is made, only results from
> certain directories are chosen, but still only using one index file?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> Erik
> 
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