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- From: lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com (Randy Lindsey)
- Subject: Re: Help (another try, with text this time)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.190517.3986@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Organization: Colorado Software Solutions, Inc.
- References: <1992Oct30.024155.5404@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:59:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct30.024155.5404@u.washington.edu>, elgreco@carson.u.washington.edu (Jared Vogt) writes...
- >
- >The following questions maybe an exercise in meta-ignorance.
- >I am looking for a database to organize various sorts
- >information, where I can create a simple search screen to
- >look for that information by keyword using boolean logic.
- >For example, I would like to enter all of my paper files by
- >keyword so that I could just stick any new piece of
- >information in the next sequential file and enter its
- >contents in a database where I could subsequently search for
- >its location. By doing this, i am hoping to simplify my
- >seartch process for various peices of information. It would
- >encompass not only paper files, but informatoin of all
- >sorts, so that when I want to find, say, everything that I
- >have (paper files, computer documents, magazine articles)
- >that has to do with "x+y," the database using logic would
- >search for all instances of "x+y," and list them out. Is
- >this a simple database feature? If my above explination was
- >totally lame, maybe an existing example would help. I want
- >to create something with the same searching mechanism as
- >Medline, or just about any other online or CD-rom database.
- >I currently have Foxpro, but have not yet delved into it.
- >Another consideration. I would like to have some interface
- >in Windows if possible. I have come accross a couple of
- >shareware viewers, that appear to allow me to search my
- >Foxpro files in Windows, but they did not have any provision
- >for logic. Do ones with logic exist? Do I just need a
- >Windows DB?
- >Thanks in advance for any suggestions or help.
- >Jared
- >vango@u.washington.edu
-
- Yes, this is a simple thing for a database to do. Depending
- upon the sophistication of the searching logic, almost any
- database could do it, even the simple file manager ones.
-
- Since you have Foxpro, try using it. Basically, you want
- to add a record to the database for every keyword in each
- file/document/article/etc. Then, you can inquire by keyword
- and it will list every record that has that keyword, giving
- the file number that you need to go find it. You can get
- more sophisticated, but this will do the basic retrieval.
-
- Foxpro for Windows will be coming along (they've said before
- the end of the year, probably wouldn't slip more than a month
- or two), so you can upgrade to that and should be able to
- use what you've already set up.
-
- Randy Lindsey
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