Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!itivax!kam
From: kam@itivax.iti.org (Keith A. McNabb)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Free Text Databases - II
Keywords: free text
Message-ID: <1190@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 15 May 89 16:25:06 GMT
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Someone has asked about the results of my survey of free text
databases, and I am unable to get through to him via email.
So far, I've had one recommendation for AskSam and I've 
received a quite impressive description of a system Earl
Kinmonth developed at Berkley.  However, I will probably
be staying with the BRS/SEARCH system for our immediate need,
as it is quite powerful and we have already paid the 
susbstantial licensing fee.  

BRS requires the insertion of unique field headings in 
a pre-existing text file, but the fields can be configured
with great flexibility (all numeric, date only, unlimited size, 
etc.) and it has a vast array of search operators.