science@nems.ARPA (Mark Zimmermann) (09/09/88)
Appended below, if all goes well, is the file tex.0.5.sit.hqx, which has to be run through BINHEX and then STUFFIT to recover. It's the HyperCard stack that's the shareware extended/enhanced/improved version of my old effort Texas. TEX (no relation to TeX or typesetting, obviously), like Texas, can be used to build complete inverted indices to arbitrarily-large completely unstructured free-text files (which I call 'dataspaces') ... and like Texas, TEX lets you scroll around in an index window, click on a word to call up a key-word-in-context view of all of the occurrences of that word and its neighbors, click on a line in that Context view to jump immediately into the actual text of your dataspace at that point, and copy/paste anything you read from that Text view into notes or other material you're working on. But in addition to what Texas allowed, TEX shows you multiple windows into a dataspace's Index view (independently scrollable), TEX lets you browse through multiple dataspaces (just copy the browsing Card and paste in extra copies), and TEX has 'subspace' browsing (a form of proximity search that's very friendly and nicely intuitive). TEX is also much better designed graphically (thanks to help from Andreas Vichr) and is much easier for users to customize or extend at the HyperTalk scripting level. TEX contains complete documentation, and the C source code for all of its XFCNS is available separately (I'll try to post it to you here next). The license fee requested is $10 for individual/family/nonprofit/educational users, and $40 for corporate users. I would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions for improvements, bug reports, etc. from anybody who tries the stack. Best, ^z Mark Zimmermann, 9511 Gwyndale Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20910 P.S. if you can't get the .sit.hqx files off the net, you can send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, a formatted Mac disk, and $15 (which includes the individual license fee, refundable if you don't like TEX) and I'll put TEX 0.5, the source code, qndxr, MultIndexer, brwsr, Texas version 0.27, and whatever else fits on there for you ... I really hate to spend time duplicating disks, though, so please don't write unless there is no other way. The same disk should be available from BMUG and other places in a few weeks.... Apologies for mentioning money (pls feel free to delete this postscript, moderator!), but I don't want to be in the disk duping business any more!! [Moderators note: this has been sent to comp.binaries.mac and info-mac for distribution. chuq]