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From: gjb@cs.brown.edu (Gregory Brail)
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Subject: Re: Looking for good, inexpensive way to query news articles on Mac disk
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Date: 26 Feb 91 21:30:12 GMT
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Reply-To: gjb@cs.brown.edu (Gregory Brail)
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On Location, which I believe is from On Systems, isn't shareware but
it's only about $50 from mail-order places and it works well. It's a
desk accessory that lets you index text so you can quickly search for
any word in that text. It reads most common file formats, so you can
just double-click on the name of a file it found and look at it or
print it. 

I've tested On Location on a 60 MB database of newspaper articles and
found that if you keep the index (about 3 MB for that amount of text)
on a local disk you can find any keyword in about five minutes on a
Mac II.

I wish there were faster, more sophisticated textual database systems
for the Mac, but On Location is certainly worth a look.

				-greg

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