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From: tmb@davinci.acc.Virginia.EDU (Thomas M. Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Fish Contents On-Line Index
Keywords: Sun CD-ROM
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.123905.9773@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 21 Aug 90 12:39:05 GMT
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In article <81414@aerospace.AERO.ORG> foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) writes:
>In article <1990Aug18.054937.11246@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>...
>>>buy a drive. Personally, I think that a _fully_ indexed Fred Fish collection,
>>>whether it be on 1 disk or 3, along with a good search engine, would be the
>>>catalyst that starts the ball rolling (or the CD-ROM spinning).
>>
>I would be perfectly happy to have all of the Fish Disks just copied
>onto the CD Rom. 
>
>Currently I have a simple ARexx program that does  apretty good job
>of finding things. I have copied all of the Fish Contents files 
>(for the approx 300 disks which I onto my hard drive). The ARexx
>program searches those files in the background and when it finishes 
>the whole list it opens a window with all of the hits.
>
>It is not very sophisticated. If I had the complete disks on a CD-Rom,
>it would be very simple to enhance the ARexx script to do much more.
>
>-- 
>foy@aerospace.aero.org  (Richard Foy)  Standard Disclaimer
>

Is there any current interest in an on-line "every word" index to the
Fish Contents files (ie the program abstracts)? (Or does this facility
already exist?)

As part of testing a set of B-tree modules I am am working on, I constructed
a prototype of such a thing. It is certainly quick, but without
compression the text, indices, and program abstract files might eat up 5MB
on a hard disk. Is it worth completing and polishing?

Tom Breeden
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