paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) (06/16/88)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sources.wanted,misc.wanted Subject: Re: Info on free-text databases wanted Summary: brs/search References: <799@stride.Stride.COM> Reply-To: paul@csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater) Distribution: world Organization: Computer Sciences of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ In article <799@stride.Stride.COM> clindh@Stride.COM (Christer Lindh) writes: >I'm looking for free-text databases with extended search-functions >-- > clindh@stride.COM :: The Fittest Shall Survive > Stride Product Group, R&D :: Yet The Unfit May Live. >MicroSage Computer Systems, Inc. :: > Reno, NV, (702) 322-6868 :: We Must Repeat ! We've been working with and developing applications in a product called BRS/Search for free-text work. It runs under Unix and Xenix, as well as other mainframe operating systems (there's even a DOS version!), and has a very powerful search engine. It features a menu generation language, print-time formatting, full ANSI Thesaurus, image storage (yes! scanning handwriting too!), foreign language support, data comp- ression, etc. It's just a simple inverted file, but it indexes EVERY word (except the common ones like 'the' or others you specify), and it is VERY FAST. It's written in C, and there are ports for dozens of machines. The theoretical limits are 16,777,215 documents per database, each document can have up to 64kb fields (or 'paragraphs') - and each field can be variable length up to 64kb long! My only criticism is its weakness in computation. It's really text only, although numbers from tables can easily be exported to, e.g. a spreadsheet. Sorry about the re-posting, but I forgot to add an address (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!) :-) BRS Information Technologies 1200 Route 7, Latham, NY 12110 (800) 235-1209 and in NYS (518) 783-1161 ---------------- Paul Gillingwater, Computer Sciences Call this BBS - Magic Tower (24 hours) paul@csnz.nz (vuwcomp!dsiramd!csnz) NZ +64 4 753 561 8N1 TowerNet software P.O.Box 929, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND V21/V23/V22/V22bis/Bell 103/Bell 212A Vox: +64 4 846194, Fax: +64 4 843924 "All things must parse"-ancient proverb