Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: text search program needed Message-ID: <2117@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 23 Aug 90 14:49:26 GMT References: <66964.26D14DC6@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Organization: Iron City, USA Lines: 50 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> Does anybody know if >RBK> there is an equivalent of ASK SAM for MAC? It would do fast >RBK> searches of large files and could use BOOLEAN logic to do word >RBK> searches.... it would be able to put together all the entries >RBK> between two CRs into one file and dis- play them. > >On Location, from ON Technolgy Inc., should do what you need. On Location won't do BOOLEAN logic, nor will it display multiple "finds" in a single window or file. It will only give a list of filenames containing the search string, then allow you to view them one at a time. You cannot "cat" matching files, or portions of them, to a file. On the other hand, GOfer [a DA from Microlytics; $45 from MacConnection -- a little more than half On Location's $75 MacConnection pricetag] will do exactly what you want. You can specify a wide variety of BOOLEAN searches, searching for exact or flexible matches, and once the search is complete, you can save either: all finds +x/-y lines all finds +x/-y paragraphs just info and names of all files containing finds entire files into another text file. Say, for example, you had access to a mythical CD-ROM containing the text of the New York Times from the past two years and you were researching Apple Computer's recent litigation spree. GOfer would allow you to make a query like: [find all files containing] ("apple" or "macintosh") NEARBY ("Hewlett Packard" or "Microsoft" or "Windows" or "New Wave") and save all found files into a single text file for later perusal. I like it quite a bit. It's flexible and cheap. And even better, if you buy DiskTop 4.0 [CE Software; $64 from MacConnection] you get GOfer v2.0 free with it. Disclaimer: I have no connection with CE Software, Microlytics, or MacConnection. I have nothing against ON Technology. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Does Captain Kirk Exist?" Chinese AI Experts Offer New Evidence." - spew clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone