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- Subject: Re: Search capabilities in BBS's?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.153042.718@telerama.pgh.pa.us>
- From: doug@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Doug Luce)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:30:42 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.205940.3901@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Mark Coverdill (mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
- > 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?
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- WAIS is something similar to this. Telnet to quake.think.com and log
- in as wais for a demo. Whether or not this qualifies as BBS form
- depends on your idea of what a BBS is.
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- Doug Luce
- Telerama TCP/IP BBS
- 412/481-5302
-