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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fish Contents On-Line Index
Keywords: Sun CD-ROM
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Date: 21 Aug 90 15:11:27 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.123905.9773@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tmb@davinci.acc.Virginia.EDU (Thomas M. Breeden) writes:

>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?

    I think that the program 'Aquarium' comes closest to what you are interested
in doing. There is a copy on abcfd20 that you can ftp and check out. It was
originally on one of Fred's disks. The ftp'd copy has been updated to Fish 360.


						Terry


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