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- From: 00cchall@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: Re: Search capabilities in BBS's?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.170305.13997@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:03:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.205940.3901@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- In article <1993Jan21.205940.3901@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
- mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill) writes:
- >
- > I am not that familiar with all the different BBS's out there in
- > cyberspace but the few I have seen are limited in one thing I am
- > looking for. I would like to store text based documents and allow
- > users to search through the system on keywords of their choosing.
- > Something perhaps similiar to rn but with the ability to search each
- > article for a string not just the header. The system would return the
- > articles marked with the string highlighted. Something like a
- > hypertext stack now that I think about it. Does such a system exist in
- > BBS form? in PD or Shareware?
-
- This type of software is (IMHO) more suitable to a door than to
- actual BBS software. A BBS needs to be flexible enough to allow for
- such specific uses, yet it needs to be standard enough to be useful
- to many types of SYSOPs and users. What you are asking for should be
- an "add-on" in my opinion.
-
- Chael Hall
- Author of ChaelBoard (available upon request)
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