RKORNMAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robin Brooks Kornman) (08/18/90)
I've got large encyclopedia-type files, up to 3 meg--- text-files. When I was using IBM, I used a very fast,dynamic program called ASK SAM to do word searches in these text-files. ASK SAM turned my textfiles into databases and then would pull out every paragraph that had the term or terms I was lookin for. Now I'm using a MAC SE with harddisk. Does anybody know if there is an equivalent of ASK SAM for MAC? It would do fast searches of large files and could use BOOLEAN logic to do word searches.... it would be able to put together all the entries between two CRs into one file and dis- play them. If anybody canhelp me it would advance the cause of Tibetan Translation inthe West immensely. This is the first computerized Tibetan dictionary in the history of this particular buddha field. Please send me EMAIL at RKORNMAN@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU THANKS. Robin Kornman
Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (08/20/90)
Robin Brooks Kornman writes in a message on 08/17/90 at 18:07:31 ... RBK> I've got large encyclopedia-type files, up to 3 meg--- text-files. RBK> When I was using IBM, I used a very fast,dynamic program called RBK> ASK SAM to do word searches in these text-files. ASK SAM turned RBK> my textfiles into databases and then would pull out every paragraph RBK> that had the term or terms I was lookin for. RBK> Now I'm using a MAC SE with harddisk. Does anybody know if RBK> there is an equivalent of ASK SAM for MAC? It would do fast RBK> searches of large files and could use BOOLEAN logic to do word RBK> searches.... it would be able to put together all the entries RBK> between two CRs into one file and dis- play them. On Location, from ON Technolgy Inc., should do what you need. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans) (08/22/90)
In article <66964.26D14DC6@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: > >Robin Brooks Kornman writes in a message on 08/17/90 at 18:07:31 ... > >RBK> I've got large encyclopedia-type files, up to 3 meg--- text-files. >RBK> When I was using IBM, I used a very fast,dynamic program called FreeText is a hypercard stack which builds a fully inverted index and then does VERY fast full text searching with boolean and user specifiable proximity ranges. It is available for ftp on sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the hypercard directory. Peter Evans
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (08/23/90)
In article <66964.26D14DC6@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: > >Robin Brooks Kornman writes in a message on 08/17/90 at 18:07:31 ... > >RBK> Does anybody know if >RBK> there is an equivalent of ASK SAM for MAC? It would do fast >RBK> searches of large files and could use BOOLEAN logic to do word >RBK> searches.... it would be able to put together all the entries >RBK> between two CRs into one file and dis- play them. > >On Location, from ON Technolgy Inc., should do what you need. On Location won't do BOOLEAN logic, nor will it display multiple "finds" in a single window or file. It will only give a list of filenames containing the search string, then allow you to view them one at a time. You cannot "cat" matching files, or portions of them, to a file. On the other hand, GOfer [a DA from Microlytics; $45 from MacConnection -- a little more than half On Location's $75 MacConnection pricetag] will do exactly what you want. You can specify a wide variety of BOOLEAN searches, searching for exact or flexible matches, and once the search is complete, you can save either: all finds +x/-y lines all finds +x/-y paragraphs just info and names of all files containing finds entire files into another text file. Say, for example, you had access to a mythical CD-ROM containing the text of the New York Times from the past two years and you were researching Apple Computer's recent litigation spree. GOfer would allow you to make a query like: [find all files containing] ("apple" or "macintosh") NEARBY ("Hewlett Packard" or "Microsoft" or "Windows" or "New Wave") and save all found files into a single text file for later perusal. I like it quite a bit. It's flexible and cheap. And even better, if you buy DiskTop 4.0 [CE Software; $64 from MacConnection] you get GOfer v2.0 free with it. Disclaimer: I have no connection with CE Software, Microlytics, or MacConnection. I have nothing against ON Technology. <chaz> -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Does Captain Kirk Exist?" Chinese AI Experts Offer New Evidence." - spew clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone