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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: 12 Jun 89 03:49:19 GMT
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>+> > 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 

>Hmm...  we are doing quite a bit of work with BRS/Search, which works
>on many machines, from MS-DOS to Sun UNIX, DG/AOS etc.  The same files

>Summary:  if you are working with large amounts of free text, use the
>correct tool.  Sure, the license fee is a bit steep, but you get what
>you pay for, and it's a solid product.
>
>I like it because I use it, not because I sell it.

If "free text" and indexing on every word are the main criteria, allow
me to toot my own horn and recommend Bibliofile, a set of tools for
file management originally developed for Medieval Latin texts and
romanized Japanese bibliographies.

Bibliofile includes ked, an editor that mimics ex with an interface to
vi, kord a sorting program with logic (if there's no author, sort on
title, if there's no title, sort on ______), kawk (a format interpreter
that is programmable in a subset of C), kwik (hashed searches on every
bloody word in a text), kref (plugs footnotes into manuscripts), kroff
(a nroff-style pretty printer that is an order of magnitude faster than
its namesake), etc.

Bibliofile is currently priced at $00.00, but this may double in the
near future. Bibliofile is available as source and binary for:

MSDOS (XT, AT)

UNIX (4.2, 4.3) BSD

ULTRIX

UNIX (SUN)

SCO Xenix 286

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Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
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