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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Free Text Databases
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Date: 1 Jun 89 20:09:25 GMT
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In article <76@sc2a.unige.ch> fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) writes:
>In article <1158@itivax.iti.org>, kam@itivax.iti.org (Keith A. McNabb) writes:
>> Would anyone be able to recommend a good, efficient, and fairly
>> powerful FREE TEXT database for a PC-AT compatible (MS-DOS) or 
>> Sun/UNIX environment?  It should have no restrictions on record 
>> length and should allow pre-existing flat ASCII files to be 
>> easily incorporated.  At the same time, it should support the 
>> definition of various fields, so that searches may be more
>> selectively qualified, and it should support numeric operators.

This wish less sounds like an advertisement for Bibliofile, a set of tools
I have written over several years.  The only difference is that it is not
MSDOS or **IX.  It is available on both.

Write me for a blurp describing the system.


Earl H. Kinmonth
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