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- From: rice@ttd.teradyne.com
- Subject: Re: Search capabilities in BBS's?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164524.1@ttd.teradyne.com>
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- References: <1993Jan21.205940.3901@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan23.170305.13997@bsu-ucs>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:31:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.205940.3901@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, writes:
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- > 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?
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- TBBS has some Text search capability built-in, but probably not as extensive
- as you want. There is a third party TDBS program specifically written to
- address text search/retrieval that I hear is pretty good, but I don't know
- much about it. For other boards, there are some third party 'door' programs
- which do this.
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- I've not heard of a BBS program that is specifically optimized for text search.
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- John Rice K9IJ
- rice@ttd.teradyne.com
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