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Vermicious - 16 Jul 2004 22:44 GMT
Hello,

I'd be grateful for any help on this.

I want to do something that seems really simple to me, but which I'm unable
to find an equally simple solution to.  In this supposed information age, I
find it especially confounding.

I just want to set up a database to accomodate some text documents.  I want
them browsable by just a handful of categories (e.g., all docs; docs by
date; docs by author; docs by topic), and cross-referencable by the same
categories, and I'd like to have a full text search capability.

Apart from that, I'd like the database to have a simple and intuitive
interface, and I want to be able to put it onto a disc or another computer
and have it, and all the docs, accessible on it.

While this must be just about the easiest thing on earth for any programmer
to be able to do, I'm amazed that any software I try to do this with is
needlessly, and bizarrely, complicated.  And not able to do it.

I tried out Coolbase, and I like the structure of that, but it's more
unwieldy and complicated that I thought it would be.  And its search
capabilities seem very limited.  I tried out Doquments as well, but, again,
became confounded at how needlessly complicated it is.  And, again, it
didn't seem to be able to do what I want.

Am I just wrong about these programmes not being appropriate?  Is there
another, simple and effective programme that I can do this with?  Is there
something else that I should try?

I'd be grateful if you'd post any replies to the newsgroup, as my email's
been acting up.
--CELKO-- - 18 Jul 2004 01:34 GMT
AskSam Systems
Box #1428
Perry, FL 32347

Bridger Systems
Box #1207
Bozeman, MT 59771

BRS Software
800 Westpark Drive
McLean, VA 22102

CompuLink Management Center, Inc.
370 South Crenshaw Blvd, #E-106
Torrance, CA 90503

Data Retrieval Corporation
11801 West Silver Spring Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53225

Dataflight Software
10573 West Pico Blvd #68
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Document Systems Inc.
12 South Main Street
Norwalk, CT 06854

DT Search Software
2101 Crystal Plaza Arcade #231
Arlington, VA 22202

EPI Inc.
Thunderstone Software
11115 Edgewater Drive
Cleveland, OH 44102

Excalibur Technologies Inc.
1959 Palomar Oaks Way #100
Carlsbad, CA 92009-1307

Executive Technologies
2120 Sixteenth Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35205

Folio Corp.
5072 North 300 West
Provo, UT 84604-5652

Fulcrum Technologies Inc.
785 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5H4
CANADA  Gunning Wordnology
344 Durie Street
Toronto, Ontario M6S 3G7
CANADA

Horizons Technology
Power!Search
3990 Ruffin Road
San Diego, CA 92126

IBM SearchManager/2
client/server ap for OS/2 and Windows

Infodata Systems Inc.
5205 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041

Larson-Davis Information Systems
InfoQue
1681 West 820 North
Provo, UT 84601

MacKinney Systems Inc.
2674-A South Glenstone #112
Springfield, MO 65804

Microlytics, Inc.
2 Tobey Village Office Park
Pittsford, NY 14534

MultiWriter Software
763 Stelton Street
Teaneck, NJ 07666

National Information Standards Organization
Box #1056
Bethesda, MD 20817
BSR Z39.58 "Common Command Language for On-Line Interactive Information
Retrieval"

NDX Corporation
10400 Eaton Place #403
Fairfax, VA 22030

PC DOCS, Inc.
124 Marriott Drive #203
Tallahassee, FL 32301

PC-TRANSLATOR
Linguistic Products
Box 8263
The Woodlands, TX 77387

Personal Library Software
Personal Librarian  Rockville, MD 20850
Promark Software Inc.
120-17411 Union Hill Road
Redmond, WA 98053

Promark Software
120 -17411 Union Hill Rpad
Redmond, WA 98053

ProSoft
399 East Tenth Street
Eugene, OR 97401

QL Systems Ltd
One Gore Street
Kingston, O, Ontario K7L 2L1
CANADA

Quicksoft Inc
PC Browse
219 First Avenue North #224
Seattle, WA 98109

RAM! Sector Publications
Box 738, Station C
Toronto, Ontario M6J 3S1
CANADA

Recognita Corp. of America
1250 Oakmead Pkwy #210
Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3599

Research Software Design
2718 SW Kelly Street #181
Portland, OR 97201

SoftSolutions Technology Corp.
Novell, Inc.
122 East 1700 South
Provo, UT 84606

Sumak Corporation
39 Dawson Drive
Sudbury, MA 01776

TextWare Corp.
Box #3267
333 Main Street
Park City, UT 84060

Thunderstone Software
EPI Inc.
11115 Edgewater Drive
Cleveland, OH 44102  Verity Inc.
1550 Plymouth Street
Mountain View, CA 94043

Virginia Systems Inc.
5509 South Bay Court
Midlothian, VA 23112

ZyLab Corporation
1130 Lake Cook Road #102
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
708-459-8000

=====================

National Information Standards Organization
Box #1056
Bethesda, MD 20817

Publications in textbases:

Electric Word
Emmalaan 21- EW 18
1075 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
    <<out of business>>

Records & Retrieval Report
Box #5007
Westport, CT 06881

Searcher Magazine
143 Old Marion Pike
Medford, NJ 08055

Text Management Journal
50 Stanford Street #800
Boston, MA 02114

Text Technology
Wright State University
7600 State Route #703
Celina, OH 45822

Verbatim
Box #78008
Indianapolis, IN 46278

Wordsmith's Review
22250 Capulin Court
Woodland Hills, CA 91364

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Some UK text products for the UK edition of DBMS:

Blackwell Scientific
Osney Mead, Oxford,
England OX2 0EL.
US phone: 800-695-3364

ZyImage
Marketlabs (Europe) Limited
497 Battersea Park Road
LONDON SW11 4LW
071 223 8247

Excalibur EFS
Excalibur Technologies
Royal Albert House
Sheet Street
WINDSOR
SL4 1BE
0753 831978

Visual Recall
XSoft (division of Xerox)
3400 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto

Assassin PC (Assassin-6)
Associated Knowledge Systems
Amen House
Bedale
North Yorks
DL8 1XA
0677 425101

First!
Individual Inc.
84 Sherman Street
CAMBRIDGE
Mass
02140
UK: Cedar Court, 9 Fairmile, Henley RG9 2JR
0800 766 4224/ 617 354 2230; +44 491 5796000

Basis
Information Dimensions

Headfast
Head Software International
Oxted Mill  Oxted
Surrey
RH8 9PB
0883 717057

Intelligence Analyst Workbench
ICL
Observatory House
Windsor Road
SLOUGH
SL1 2EY
0753 516000

ProCite (for Windows)
Personal Bibliographic Software
Woodside
Hinksey Hill
OXFORD
OX1 5AU
0865 326612

Druid
BDC Techical Services
Slack Lane
Derby
DE22 3FL
0332 47123

Star
Alpha Micro
Enterprise House
Roxborough Way
MAIDENHEAD
SL6 3UD
0628 822120

YGrep Search Engine
Yves Roumazeilles (101233.1032@compuserve.com).  It is not specifically
oriented toward large text databases, but it allows regular expression
searches and searches with approximation levels (let's search "toto" "tata"
"tutu" as "toto" + 2_errors_allowed).
Vermicious - 27 Jul 2004 15:56 GMT
many thanks for that info.

> AskSam Systems
>  Box #1428
[quoted text clipped - 297 lines]
> searches and searches with approximation levels (let's search "toto" "tata"
> "tutu" as "toto" + 2_errors_allowed).
 
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