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- # Automatically generated decoration file for /archive/contents/index
- #
- # This file and any information not otherwise attributed is
- # Copyright 1992 by Ready-to-Run Software, Inc.
- #
- # All Rights Reserved
- #
- *DESCRIPTION*
- index - version 1.0
-
- Index allows you to maintain multiple databases of textual
- information, each with a different format. With each database,
- index allows you to:
-
- - add entries
- - delete entries
- - edit existing entries
- - search for entries using full regular expressions
- - control what parts of an entry are searched
- - print out entries matching a pattern
- - run all or part of the database through an arbitrary
- formatting program
- ^
- The databases index maintains are stored as simple lines of text. Each
- field of an entry is a line of text, and each entry in the database is
- made up of a fixed number of lines. For each database, you tell index
- what each field's (line's) name is. You can have multiple-line fields by
- leaving that field's name blank. There's no fancy storage algorithm,
- things are just stored sequentially. But for the biggest database I've
- got, about 500 5-line entries, performance is just fine.
-
- .
- *LICENSE*
- The index-db software came with no copyrights.
-
- It was written by:
-
- David A. Curry
- Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
- Mail Stop 230-5
- NASA Ames Research Center
- Moffett Field, CA 94035
- davy@riacs.edu
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- man/cat1/index.1
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- slib/extras/index/books.idx
- slib/extras/index/bphone.idx
- slib/extras/index/cdlist.fmt
- slib/extras/index/cdlist.idx
- slib/extras/index/cdwantlist.fmt
- slib/extras/index/cdwantlist.idx
- slib/extras/index/pphone.fmt
- slib/extras/index/pphone.idx
- slib/extras/index/samples/books.fmt
- slib/extras/index/samples/books.idx
- slib/extras/index/samples/bphone.idx
- slib/extras/index/samples/cdlist.fmt
- slib/extras/index/samples/cdlist.idx
- slib/extras/index/samples/cdwantlist.fmt
- slib/extras/index/samples/cdwantlist.idx
- slib/extras/index/samples/pphone.fmt
- slib/extras/index/samples/pphone.idx
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- bin/index
- .
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