kovar@biostat.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) (02/27/91)
I tend to save news articles to my Mac disk in a rather unorganized manner.
I'm looking for some sort of application, preferably free or shareware,
that I could use to scan through a large number of text files for keywords
and then view the file with the same software. A newsreader that worked
with the files stored directly on the Mac disk would work fine, too.
Thanks, in advance, for any pointers....
-David
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"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."gjb@cs.brown.edu (Gregory Brail) (02/27/91)
On Location, which I believe is from On Systems, isn't shareware but it's only about $50 from mail-order places and it works well. It's a desk accessory that lets you index text so you can quickly search for any word in that text. It reads most common file formats, so you can just double-click on the name of a file it found and look at it or print it. I've tested On Location on a 60 MB database of newspaper articles and found that if you keep the index (about 3 MB for that amount of text) on a local disk you can find any keyword in about five minutes on a Mac II. I wish there were faster, more sophisticated textual database systems for the Mac, but On Location is certainly worth a look. -greg +----------------------------------------------------+ Greg Brail Internet: gjb@cs.brown.edu BITNET: gjb@browncs.bitnet UUCP: ..uunet!brunix!gjb Home: (401)273-1172