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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: ascii database program package?
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Date: 11 Jul 89 22:33:15 GMT
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In article <1356@nosc.NOSC.MIL> dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel) writes:
>I once read an article about a package of routines that manipulated
>databases organized as records in a normal ASCII file.  The package
>provided programs acting as filters to select records by keyword and
>to format them into reports.  Can anyone give me a reference to that
>article or to a similar set of programs?  Thanks,

Perhaps this was a reference to Bibliofile.  Its records are blocks of
ascii lines (any length) separated by one or more blank lines.  Some
of the tools in the Bibliofile package also work with *roff records
using paragraphs as the unit of analysis.

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