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- From: fromherz@parc.xerox.com (Markus Fromherz)
- Subject: Re: Prolog 1000
- Message-ID: <fromherz.720941674@dumbo>
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- References: <1992Nov3.103148.16618@news.lrz-muenchen.de> <brady-041192112951@brady.cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:34:34 GMT
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- brady@cs.tcd.ie (Michael Brady) writes:
-
- >draxler@next6.cis.uni-muenchen.de (Christoph Draxler) wrote:
- >>
- >> I recall a very nice information retrieval system called PSI by
- >> Markus Fromherz, a stand-alone Prolog implementation for the Mac, which
- >> could be used for this...
-
- >Excuse my ignorance about this. Is PSI a genuine 'double clickable' Mac
- >application? Or is it a Prolog program which must be loaded into a Prolog
- >system and executed?
-
- Doesn't seem to be obvious, does it? Imagine asking that question about a C
- program. - Note that I am not saying that PSI is ideal for the Prolog 1000
- database, especially because it might exclude users of other platforms.
- (PSI can export in many formats, though, including Prolog-readable text.)
-
- Still, using the publicity, from the ReadMe file of PSI (pronounced "psee"):
-
- PSI is a handy system for the management and retrieval of your
- personal data, be it addresses, CD collections, or bibliographic
- references. It is intended for the non-commercial user. It may not
- be as full-fledged as some data-base systems, but has some features
- that you won't find in most commercial systems. Also, you may find
- it easier to set up and faster to use. (Try the sample sessions!)
- PSI is useful for a broad range of data. Indexing with descriptors
- makes searching for the data you need fast, and the interface to
- other data-base formats (import and export) is quite powerful.
-
- PSI has been written in LPA MacProlog and is a "genuine 'double clickable'
- Mac application". PSI runs on all Macs with System 6 or 7 in 1MB of main
- memory. As LPA MacProlog isn't yet 32-bit clean, PSI isn't either. Exten-
- sive documentation and some examples are included.
-
- PSI is available by anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, directory
- info-mac/app, file psi-23.hqx. It was also available on a recent Nautilus
- CD-ROM (if you happened to get it) and will be on the first Info-Mac CD-
- ROM.
-
- (End-of-commercial)
-
- Markus Fromherz
- <fromherz@parc.xerox.com>
-