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DB-02: Text Indexing/Retrieval, Free-Form Databases
3BY5
#7024/055 [2 disks]
is a slick, fast data base program with Lotus-like menus. It offers a freeform
data base based on the 3 by 5 index card format.
Instant Recall
Fremont, Michael
$?
#7024/0518
is a resident, freeform database program with a built-in word processor. It
will handle databases of up to 80k.
Reference Management System
Goodell, Paul Douglas
$45
#7305/2725 [2 disks]
is a dBIII/+ compatible database program for managing bibliographic data. RMS is
menu driven and easy to use, yet it is very comprehensive. It allows for
comments and abstracts and long entries. It is very flexible in searching,
extracting and reporting data. Requires 475+K; a hard disk is recommended.
Bibl 8.44a [BIBL] 09-93 CD
Grotophorst, Clyde W. & GMUtant Software
$39
#7305/3083
keeps track of books and articles. Features include keyword indexing, a large
variety of reports, mouse support, support for monochrome monitors, global
find and replace, support for multiple databases, importation of ASCII files,
a text editor with word wrap for note field, WIN31 clipboard support,
and much more.
The program can shell to DOS and run ZIP, LHA, or ARJ to create compressed
backups of databases. You can also import data downloaded from Medline, Eric,
ABI-Inform, PsychInfo databases and OCLC Prism SaveScreens to Bibl records.
Requires 380K and a hard disk.
BiblioFile
Madar, Dean
$25
#7305/1280
is a citation management system originally designed to be used in keeping
track of medical literature references. It differs in approach from other
citation management packages by providing you with the automatic capacity to
file citations by subject matter in addition to using key words. Biblio-File
is menu driven and easy to use and uses B-tree indexes for extremely fast
retrieval of data. Duplicate references within one subject may be deleted;
citations can be numbered when output to file or printer.
JEPRS 2.57
Miranda, Louis M. ASP
$44
#7305/1782
is a bibliographic database system for writers and scientists. The specialized
database system used to store, retrieve, format, and search for references to
scientific literature.You can even add and search for non-English characters.
JEPRS's formatting capabilities are such that citations can be output
according to the formats required by virtually any journal. It can read and
write standard Medline format files and directly export your files in word
processor formats and in Comma Delimited format. WordPerfect 5.0/5.1 and
PC-Write 3.0 files are supported. Sorting is fast, and you can sort by author,
year, or journal.
Bibl/Net 4.02
Grotophorst, Clyde W.
$150
#4316
keeps track of books and articles. This version is for use on Novell Netware.
Features include support for up to 50 simultaneous users, full Novell locking,
six levels of security, support for multiple databases, mouse-support, five
indexes maintained in a single file, keyword indexing, ability to store each
user's home directory, bibliographies in several forms, a wide variety of lists,
ASCII file viewer, Boolean searches, ability to view reports on screen and or
send to disk, shell to DOS, global find and replace, and more.
Biblogic
Biblogic Computer Services
$47
#7790/4474 [2 disks]
is a bibliographic database program. It can generate selected reference lists in
many different formats. Comments on a particular concept may be selectively
combined into a single document for further word processing. The program is
menu-driven and has easy to fill-in fields. Hard disk and 640k required.
MAG RakDb
SOFTreat
$39
#4236
lets you maintain a database of magazine articles. Articles can be cataloged by
Magazine, Issue Date, Article Title, Page Number, Author and Category. Other
features include built-in text editor, filtered search facilities, user-defined
categories, selective indexes summary and detailed reports, and more. It can
also be used to catalog any text file up to 32K obtained from scanned OCR, etc.
Requires a hard drive.
AnyWord
Balkan, Eric
$35
#7479/1238
is a general text indexing and retrieval program similar to ZyIndex and Memory
Mate. Anyword creates an index of a text file much like the index of a book.
Then the next time you want to quickly locate information, Anyword uses the
index to do so. Programs limits are about 1 million characters of text spread
over up to 254 files. Anyword will search on either a word or a combination of
words. It allows Boolean operators in the search (AND - OR - NOT). It allows
wild cards in the target word(s). Anyword is not a quick and dirty word-search
utility. If you just want to search a bunch of files for some specific text,
you can use something like FGREP. Anyword is a powerful, multi-featured text
retrieval system.
Concord and Indexer
$?
#7479/0760
are used to generate an index for a document. CONCORD will tabulate up to 1500
words, from 3 to 20 characters each, and will list the number of times each
word appears in the text. The resultant word list is alphabetized and output
to a file. INDEXER reads the word list, and compares every word on the list to
the lines of your manuscript. It contains provisions for multiple occurrences
of any of the words on a single page, or it will, at your option, ignore all
occurrences except the first on each page. This may be very useful in
preparing the text itself, because the writer can see where and how often a
certain word or term is used.
The INDEXER program will accept up to a maximum of 1000 words (which seems a
little odd since CONCORD will generate a 1500-word list) and will record up to
12 page numbers on which those words occur. The user should of course select
only the important words of a text, which usually occur far less times than
the maximum count.
PC-Index
Help Software
$48
#7479/1838
will produce an index for a text file. PCI is fast, menu-driven and easy to
use. PCI will produce an index on every word in a document, or you can control
which words will be included or discarded. It can handle any size file.
Features include the ability to use a wildcard character for searches; support
for several word processors such as WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Multimate,
Wordstar, and Wordstar 2000; increased size of word lists; up to four columns
in the index; an option to extract only capitalized words; no-case conversion;
and an option to turn indexing on and off within a document. Requires 384k DOS
RAM.
dtSearch 2.01
DT Software, Inc. ASP
$104
#7479/3254 [2 disks]
performs both indexed and unindexed searches on DOS text files and documents
created with WordPerfect and Multimate Advantage II. It can perform boolean,
proximity, phrase, and field/segment searches, and will search macros. Other
features include date searches; filename searches; network support;
applications menu and launch feature; index verify and rebuild; word list
generation; and a DOS shell. Requires 384K, a hard disk, and DOS 3.2+.
Find-X
Forrester, John
$20
#7478/1587
finds all the items in a cataloged collection that match the description that
you want to look for. The items in the collection may be anything at all, but
the Find-X Universal Cataloging System is particularly useful for items whose
characteristics you cannot identify by casual inspection, such as photographic
slides, photographs or documents in files, record collections (particularly
records with several selections), items kept in different places, research
notes, books, etc.
IdeaList
Sleeter, Michael R. ASP
$39
#7478/2794
is a database program for storing and displaying information, such as recipes,
coin collection data, or just ideas. The main selling point of this program is
its very attractive graphical interface (EGA required). It also includes an
interesting set of inspirational quotes. Other features include a file manager
module and comprehe