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From: kfr@dip.eecs.umich.edu (K. Fritz Ruehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Looking for shareware "Boolean search"
Keywords: search, boolean
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Date: 28 Nov 89 17:13:07 GMT
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  A friend of mine is in a Library and Info Sciences program and is building
a demonstration stack to show off the usefulness of Hypercard as a user inter-
face for bibliographic databases.  He is looking for a way to do "Boolean
searches" over keywords in a stack (i.e., Boolean combinations of keywords,
such as: "'hyper' and 'nifty' and not 'expensive'").  I can direct him to 
commercial products such as HyperKRS from Knowledge Set, but at $195 I'm sure
this is out of his price range.

  Sooo, ... Does anyone know of public domain or shareware offerings that will
give this capability in a stack?  I imagine that XCMDs or XFCNs would be the
best way to do this, but hand-coding in HyperTalk might be feasible.  Any help
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

  --  Fritz Ruehr
      kfr@dip.eecs.umich.edu