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From: RKORNMAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robin Brooks Kornman)
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Subject: text search program needed
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Date: 17 Aug 90 18:07:31 GMT
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I've got large encyclopedia-type files, up to 3 meg--- text-files.  When I was
using IBM, I used a very fast,dynamic program called ASK SAM to do word
searches in these text-files. ASK SAM turned my textfiles into databases
and then would pull out every paragraph that had the term or terms I was lookin
for.

Now I'm using a MAC SE with harddisk.  Does anybody know if there is an
equivalent of ASK SAM for MAC?  It would do fast searches of large
files and could use BOOLEAN logic to do word searches.... it would
be able to put together all the entries between two CRs into one file and dis-
play them.

If anybody canhelp me it would advance the cause of Tibetan Translation
inthe West immensely.  This is the first computerized Tibetan
dictionary in the history of this particular buddha field. Please send
me EMAIL at RKORNMAN@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU

THANKS. Robin Kornman