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- From: Phillip Godwin <cmpsg03@nt.com>
- Subject: text search software(follow-up)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.142631.18783@brtph560.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Northern Telecom
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:26:31 GMT
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- In my last post...
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- > I am working on an UNIX-based application (running on HP 400 and 700
- > series workstations) that will among other things allow a user to
- > search a large number of text files for a string. We had planned
- > to parse grep output for the needed search result information,
- > but grep is just too slow.
- >
- > What we are looking for is a text search program (commercial or
- > shared) that we can call from within our application. Does anyone
- > out there have any experience with UNIX searching software? I
- > would just like to get an idea of what is out there and then follow
- > up on any interesting leads.
-
- I got a couple responses (thanks Ken and Erik), but they led me to the
- conclusion that I needed to refine my question.
-
- We've pretty much decided that a non-indexed search will not work
- due to the nature of the application. The files that are being
- searched will be updated once per week, and we have off-peak
- machine time that can be used for indexing after the files are
- updated.
-
- Does anyone have any experience with packages that allow indexing
- and searching? I'd also like to hear from anyone who has used dbm or
- ndbm for indexing.
-
- If you can help, please email cmpsg03@nt.com.
-
- Thanks...Phil
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