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RACONTEX SEARCH SYSTEM
Instruction Manual For
Loading/Indexing and Searching
Copyright (c) Edward Guy CDP 1987,8,9,90,1
A product of:
GUY SOFTWARE
1752 Duchess Avenue
West Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada V7V 1P9 December 17, 1993
Compuserve 71750,1036
CONTENTS
DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RACONTEX FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
LOADING/INDEXING INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND RACONTEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
FOR THE MORE TECHNICAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Stopwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Delimiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Merging Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Copy Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
For the REALLY technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Updating licence information on an old database . . . . . . . . . . 11
Program Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SEARCH SYSTEM INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Simple Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Word Proximity Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Printer and File Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Please note that the SEARCH SYSTEM INSTRUCTIONS can stand alone and do not
require an understanding of the LOADING/INDEXING INSTRUCTIONS.
There may be more up to date instructions in the file README.
Racontex Manual Page 1
DISCLAIMER: The supplier has no liability to the licensee or any other person
or entity for any damage or loss, including special, incidental or
consequential damages caused by this product directly or indirectly. The
software is supplied "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed
or implied. Warranties of merchantability or of fitness for any purpose are
specifically disclaimed.
Racontex Manual Page 2
RACONTEX FEATURES.
Many business uses. In addition to the obvious uses for statutes,
legal transcripts, etc Racontex is valuable for
use with collective agreements, policy manuals,
office handbooks, library catalogues -- in fact
anywhere that someone has to "look something up"
and there is a personal computer available.
Easy "Intuitive" Search. Can be started with a one line command (or from a
batch file or menu), and prompts the user
throughout. Context-sensitive HELP screens
available at the press of a key.
Contextual Search Tool. Does not lose the context of pages found, can
"page up" and "page down" from each occurrence of
the search criteria, (even if those pages do not
contain the search criteria) and return to it
instantly by pressing one key. Moves to next or
previous incidence of search criteria by forward
arrow or backward arrow keys.
Makes full use of display. Supports 50 lines of on screen text with a VGA
adapter, 36 lines of text on screen with an EGA or
Hercules display as an alternative to regular 25
line text mode. 36 line display will fit a full
page of court reporters' transcript on the screen
at once.
Proximity Search. Supports searches of word alternatives and
combinations of alternatives within a given number
of words of each other, or on the same page as
each other.
File Output. Supports file export of search occurrence pages
either as ASCII, ASCII with search keys marked or
Wordperfect with search keys in bold.
Alternatively can copy to printer.
Variable Stopword List. Licensees of the loading (indexing) program may
specify their own list of stopwords (words not to
be included in searches, such as "and" and
"the") - this is a tremendous disk space saver.
Racontex Manual Page 3
Variable Delimiter List. Licensees of the loading (indexing) program may
specify their own list of delimiters. e.g. They
may determine whether a hyphenated word is one
word or two for search purposes.
Self Optimising for Speed. Detects memory available and loads either all or
part of the file into memory for sub-second
response. Pages large files into memory for
display (takes a fraction of a second from a hard
drive).
Powerful File Compression. Compresses text file to such a degree that,
depending on the stop word list, all files (text,
index and dictionary) fit in only slightly more
space than the original ASCII text file.
Copyright Protection. Licensees of the loading program can market "Self
Searching" disk copies of their documents and thus
compete with on-line text data base systems for
statute search etc. The search program title
screen will carry the copyright title of the
licensee as well as the program author. Both are
protected against "zapping" with a disk modifying
utility.
"Publisher Pack". A "Publisher's Package" is available which permits
a publisher to include the publisher's client's
names in the protected area of the title screen,
as well as the publisher's name. Useful for
subscription publishers of statutes etc. Includes
install procedure requiring on screen assent by
client to subscription terms.
Optional copy prevention. The resulting self searching documents may be
loaded onto computers other than the original
(subject to the appropriate licence) and then made
"non-portable" to prevent unauthorised copying.
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