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From: ap@deimos.caltech.edu (Alain Picard)
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Subject: Re: Lotus Magellan does Database duty?
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.174628.12660@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 17:46:13 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.211436.21778@ee.ualberta.ca>, kurtk@dino (Kurt Klingbeil) writes...
>I am looking for advice on how to approach the following problem:
> 
>	Need to catalogue/search/retrieve text files  (business correspondence
>		or gleanings from net traffic for example...)
>	Document size can range from 200 to 64000 bytes
>	Search capability must extend to whole body of text and cannot rely
>		on keywords
>	Performance is not a consideration (within reason... )
>	Solution should be useable by normal non-hacker-types
>	Solution should be as close to out-of-the-box as possible and not be a
>		major undertaking involving 3 months of coding and tuning.
> 

Are we talking mega-amounts of data? If not, (say, 10-megs or less),
take a look at Info-Select. It's a free form database, and let's you
search by any word. It's a bit primitive, but it does the job, and
is extremely easy to use and set up. (And it's cheap ~ $50)

						Alain Picard

p.s.  Just a satisfied customer!