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From: kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: free form texual database
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Date: 7 Jan 89 21:10:34 GMT
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In article <397@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>I have a need for a free form texual database for a Xenix system.  It
>has to be able to store entries of arbitrary length (anywhere from a few
>lines to several pages), and be indexed by at least a header, and if
>possible by special key words located in the entries.  The key words in
>the second case would be specified in a key word list, the database
>should index any word in the entry which is in the key word list.
>
>Additionally, it should be able to store data in a tree-structured
>order, somewhat like the net news.

I have such a data base.  It meets all of your criteria except tree-structure.
It uses hashed indexes instead.

Earl H. Kinmonth
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