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- August 14, 1991
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- d t S e a r c h 1.1
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- DESCRIPTION AND AUTHOR INFORMATION
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- Keywords:
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- TEXT DATABASE, DOCUMENT SEARCH, FULL TEXT RETRIEVAL, FREE-FORM
- DATABASE, WORDPERFECT, MULTIMATE, WORDSTAR, WORD, RTF, ASP
- SHAREWARE
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- Text Database or Free-Form Database
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- Short Description:
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- dtSearch is a fast, powerful, and easy to use document
- search and retrieval program. Search features include: boolean,
- proximity, phrase, and field/segment searches; search macros;
- wildcards in any position in a search term; search with an index,
- without an index, or both ways. Indexing capacity: up to 15,000
- documents per index; unlimited number of indexes. Other
- features: View retrieved documents in multiple overlapping
- windows; prepare and print search reports listing hits in
- context; cut, paste, edit, and print retrieved text; "launch"
- application that created a document. Supports the following file
- formats: ASCII text files, WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1, Multimate
- Advantage II and Multimate 4, Wordstar through version 6
- (including WordStar 2000), Microsoft Word (including Word for
- Windows) and Microsoft Rich Text Format.
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- Registration Information:
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- Registration costs $59.00. Registered users will receive: a
- printed copy of the manual, the latest version of dtSearch, free
- technical support (by mail or CompuServe) for a year, and notices
- of updates or upgrades. Register through the Public (software)
- Library at: 1-800-242-4775. See ORDER.DTS for details.
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- Telephone technical support for dtSearch is available from
- the Advanced Support Group, Inc. (ASG) at 1-900-88-HELP-8. As of
- August 15, 1991, the cost is $2.00 per minute; the first 24
- seconds are free. For those who cannot use a 900 number, ASG can
- charge support fees to a credit card, and ASG also offers
- contract technical support for a fixed annual cost. Call 1-314-
- 256-3130 for more information about these options.
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- dtSearch Program Description Page 1
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- Author/Publisher Information:
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- David Thede
- DT Software, Inc.,
- 2101 Crystal Plaza Arcade, Suite 231
- Arlington, VA 22202
- CompuServe: 72607,3323
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- ASP Notice
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- DT Software, Inc. is a member of the Association of Shareware
- Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware
- principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
- shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
- member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
- help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but
- does not supply technical support for members' products. Please
- write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442
- or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman
- 70007,3536.
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- dtSearch Program Description Page 2
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- Long Description:
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- The purpose of dtSearch is to help you find documents
- quickly. dtSearch does this by building an "index" of your
- documents that stores location of the words in each document.
- Since you will sometimes want to search documents that you have
- not indexed, dtSearch can also search without an index -- it just
- takes longer.
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- dtSearch is easy to use. You can access all of its features
- through a simple, pull-down menu interface. Extensive, context-
- sensitive help (with hypertext cross-references) is always
- available.
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- dtSearch can build and use document indexes, so it can
- search very large collections of text very quickly -- much faster
- than simple file search programs. Using dtSearch, an indexed
- search of thousands of pages of documents will only take a few
- seconds.
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- dtSearch does more than just searching for text -- it can
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- * Combinations of words, such as "apple and (pear or
- grape),"
- * Words located near other words, such as "apple within 5
- words of pear,"
- * Words located in a specific segment of a document, such
- as "@ADDRESS contains oak drive,"
- * Words that match "fuzzy" specifications, such as
- "appl*," which would match apple, application, apply,
- etc.
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- These search features allow you to make very specific search
- requests, which can help to reduce the number of "false hits" you
- get in a search. If you are searching a large text database,
- this can save you a lot of time.
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- dtSearch gives you unlimited searching capacity. One
- document index can store information about up to 15,000
- documents, and you can have as many indexes as you need. When
- you do an indexed search, you can search multiple indexes by
- simply checking off the ones you want searched.
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- dtSearch requires no "importing" or "conversion" of your
- documents. You simply check off the directories containing the
- documents to search or index, and dtSearch will do the rest. In
- almost all cases, dtSearch does not even need to be told what
- word processor you are using -- it will figure out the word
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- dtSearch Program Description Page 3
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- processor format for each document. dtSearch can read, search,
- and index documents in the following formats:
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- * ASCII or DOS Text
- * Microsoft Rich Text Format
- * Microsoft Word
- * Microsoft Word for Windows
- * Multimate Advantage II
- * Multimate version 4
- * WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1
- * WordStar through version 6
- * WordStar 2000
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- dtSearch supports use on a network. dtSearch can search for
- documents on network drives and can store indexes on network
- drives. dtSearch permits multiuser access to indexes stored on
- network drives.
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- dtSearch has many other features to make research easier,
- including:
- * search reports, which list all of the hits found in a
- search with a few lines of context;
- * application launching, so you can use your word
- processor to edit a document retrieved in a search
- without leaving dtSearch;
- * a built-in notepad, so you can easily cut and paste
- text from retrieved documents and then edit the text
- you have collected.
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- Indexing and search performance will vary according to the
- type of computer, number and type of documents, and the amount of
- memory available. But to get an idea of how fast dtSearch is,
- here is an example:
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- Equipment: 286 12 Mhz computer with PC-Cache, 1 Mb RAM
- Text Sample: 400 WordPerfect 5.1 documents totalling about
- 5.3 million bytes.
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- Time to build index: 55 minutes
- Time to compress index: 28 minutes
- Size of index: 811,343 characters (15% of the size
- of the original documents)
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- Search times:
- Simple word search: 0.71 seconds
- Complex search: 1.41 seconds
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- dtSearch Program Description Page 4
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- Limits and Requirements
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- 1. Program limits: Indexes
- * A single index may contain up to 15,000 documents
- * A single document may contain up to 60,000 words
- (about 300 double-spaced pages)
- * You can have up to 25 indexes in each index library,
- and you can have an unlimited number of index
- libraries.
- * You can have up to 25 macro or field definitions.
- * A noise word list can hold up to 200 words. Words
- after the 200th word in a list will be disregarded.
- * There is no limit on the number of words in an index or
- on the number of words starting with a particular
- letter.
- 2. Program limits: Searches
- * A single search request may involve up to 100 words,
- including wildcard matches.
- For example, if an index contained 75 words beginning
- with 's' and 75 words beginning with 't', then you
- could not search for "s* or t*"
- * A search word can be up to 32 letters long.
- * A search request can be up to 180 characters long.
- 3. Hardware requirements:
- * dtSearch will run on an IBM-compatible computer with at
- least 384k of memory available, a hard disk, and DOS
- version 3.2 or higher.
- * dtSearch 1.1 supports use on a local area network. See
- the manual for more information.
- 4. Document Types
- dtSearch 1.1 can search, index, and display the following
- file formats:
- * ASCII Text
- * Microsoft Rich Text Format
- * Microsoft Word through version 5.5
- * Microsoft Word for Windows
- * Multimate 4 and Multimate Advantage II
- * WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1
- * WordStar through version 6
- * WordStar 2000
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