Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!umd5!pevans
From: pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: text search program needed
Message-ID: <7158@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 16:36:25 GMT
References: <66964.26D14DC6@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Lines: 13

In article <66964.26D14DC6@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
>
>Robin Brooks Kornman  writes in a message on 08/17/90 at 18:07:31 ...
>
>RBK>  I've got large encyclopedia-type files, up to 3 meg--- text-files. 
>RBK>   When I was using IBM, I used a very fast,dynamic program called 

FreeText is a hypercard stack which builds a fully inverted index and
then does VERY fast full text searching with boolean and user
specifiable proximity ranges.
It is available for ftp on sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the hypercard
directory.
               Peter Evans