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- Inexpensive competition for FolioViews, AskSam, Zyindex etc. and
- for mainframe products like STAIRS. Runs under both DOS and
- Windows.
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- Many business uses. In addition to the obvious uses for
- statutes, legal transcripts, etc., Racontex is valuable for use
- with collective agreements, policy manuals, office handbooks,
- library catalogues -- in fact anywhere that someone has to "look
- something up" and there is a personal computer available. Ideal
- for on-line manuals for software!
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- Proximity Search. Supports searches of word alternatives and
- combinations of alternatives within a given number of words of
- each other, or on the same page as each other.
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- Variable Stopword List. Licensees of the loading (indexing)
- program may specify their own list of stopwords (words not to be
- included in searches, such as "and" and "the") - this is a
- tremendous disk space saver.
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- Variable Delimiter List. Licensees of the loading (indexing)
- program may specify their own list of delimiters. e.g. They may
- determine whether a hyphenated word is one word or two for search
- purposes.
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- Optional copy prevention. The resulting self searching documents
- may be loaded onto computers other than the original (subject to
- the appropriate licence) and then made "non-portable" to prevent
- unauthorized copying. Useful for significant databases in
- companies with high staff turnover.