science@nems.ARPA (Mark Zimmermann) (09/09/88)
Appended below, if all goes well, is a BINHEX'd, STUFFIT'd file of the latest version of Texas, 0.27 -- please discard all previous versions, as this one fixes some bugs in them that may cause trouble in the Merge Indices operation and elsewhere. Texas, as previously described, is a free, public-domain HyperCard stack which lets you build complete inverted indices to big (hundreds of megabytes) unstructured text files, and then browse through those indices, clicking and retrieving key-word-in-context and full-text displays. This version 0.27 is (I hope!) the last one I'm going to work on, as it's superseded by TEX (posted separately with its source code) ... Texas lacks the subspace browsing (proximity search) and the multi-dataspace abilities of TEX, but it is free. If anybody wants to use Texas (or TEX) to build improved systems which have additional capabilities, I would be most pleased (provided you sell or otherwise distribute it at a rational price, rather than $30,000/copy -- sorry for editorializing, but the current price structure for inverted index systems is rather out of line, in my humble opinion!). I took Texas and built TEX from it; you may want to do the same. Contact me for source code, or check around on the networks/boards.... Best, ^z Mark Zimmermann, 9511 Gwyndale Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA [Moderators note: this has been sent to comp.binaries.mac and info-mac for distribution. chuq]