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From: anubis@diku.dk (Steen Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: BRS ???
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Date: 30 Jan 91 10:21:12 GMT
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tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes about BRS:

>They are also in the business of marketing their text search and retrieval
>software.  I know for sure it runs on VM/CMS, pretty sure it runs on VAX/VMS
>too, don't know about Unix.

It runs at least on SunOS Unix. However the ISO-8777 CCL interface
available on the mainframes is not available on Unix. (Something
important to the members of the EEC).

Besides the core system BRS/SEARCH on Unix contains the following
features:

THESAURUS - A thesaurus system.
MNS       - A language for making menu based user interfaces.
PTF       - A print time formatting language.
BRSIFACE  - A C language interface.
BRSCTRL   - An interface based on Unix pipes.

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