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- TITLE
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- The A-Kwic Indexing System
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- VERSION
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- 2.00
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- COMPANY
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- Starbound Enterprises
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- AUTHOR
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- David W. Lowrey
- dwl10@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Internet)
- dlowrey (BIX)
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- DESCRIPTION
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- The A-Kwic Indexing System provides tools for performing
- rapid keyword searches of user data.
-
- Applications for A-Kwic would include:
- * Indexing contents of CD-ROMs.
- * Indexing the contents of software archives, such as 'aminet'.
- * Indexing any collection text, such as audio or video collections.
- * Allowing keyword searches of customer records, or other business
- related data.
- * As part of a "customer support" toolset, allowing keyword
- searches of "Bug Reports" or "Fix Databases".
-
- The A-Kwic system has two components, the database loader, and the
- database searcher.
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- The database loader, LoadDB, reads user created input records, and
- scans these records for keywords. It then builds the database files
- for use by the database searcher.
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- The input records, which LoadDB reads, contains information such as
- a record's title, lines that will be keyworded, lines that will
- appear in the record, but will not be keyworded, and line to specify
- additional keywords, that do not appear in the record.
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- Sample programs are provided, written in ARexx or C, that create
- LoadDB input files from both Fish & Aminet CD-ROM content
- listings.
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- Once a database has been created, it can be searched using the
- A-Kwic command. This program prompts the user for keywords, and
- searches the database for matches. Searches are extremely fast,
- due to the way LoadDB organizes the data.
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- Multiple keywords can be specified for a search. The keywords can
- be "ANDed" or "ORed", and grouped using parenthesis.
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- If any matches are found by the search, the user can choose to
- view the matching record's titles. The titles are displayed in
- a scrolling listview. The user can choose to view a specific
- record by double clicking on it's title.
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- Both LoadDB and A-Kwic run from either the CLI, or the workbench.
- A-Kwic supports being launched from Project icons, so that
- an A-Kwic database can have it's own icon, and will invoke A-Kwic
- if double clicked.
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- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
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- The A-Kwic system requires OS 2.04 or higher.
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- HOST NAME
- aimnet
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- DIRECTORY
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- ????/????
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- FILE NAMES
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- A-Kwic2.00.lha xxxxx bytes
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- PRICE
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- A $10.00(US) ShareWare fee is requested for private use. Commercial
- use requires registration with the author, and a suggested $100.00
- support fee.
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- DISTRIBUTABILITY
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- This release of the A-Kwic system is freely distributable.
- Commercial use requires prior registration with the author.
- Copyright 1993,1994 by Starbound Enterprises
-