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- I've just uploaded TEXAS01.SIT - HyperCard stack which lets you browse
- through multi-megabyte collections of free-text information. TEXAS
- includes facilities for building and sorting a complete inverted index
- to every word in a 'dataspace' text file. Very friendly and easy to use!
- To browse and retrieve information, begin with the index display, a
- scrolling list of key words, e.g.:
- 3 HYPERBOLIC
- 28 HYPERBUG
- 2 HYPERBUTTONS
- 10 HYPERC
- 2545 HYPERCARD
- ...etc. -- whatever words are in your input file. If you're interested in
- hypercard, just click on that word in the index and get a key word in
- context display (a scrolling window), e.g.:
- ay with these new tools. HyperCard, I believe, will be even better
- he pyramid is an index in HyperCard which knows something about the
- Bill Atkinson talks about HyperCard -----------------------------
- y seeing products such as HyperCard, and we are too, as soon-to-be
- ...etc. -- a line of the actual text around every occurrence of your chosen
- word, centered on that word. If you want to read what Bill had to say,
- just click on that line in the context display, and get the full text in a
- scrolling window on your dataspace.
- This upload is version 0.1 -- it works great, but many features remain
- on my list to be added. It uses 13 XFCNs (written in Lightspeed C) to
- open, index, browse, etc. through files. Everything is included in the
- stack -- extensive help, documentation of all features, etc. TEXAS builds
- indices at a rate of over 3 MB/hour on my Mac Plus; browsing speeds are
- limited by HyperCard response times to a screenful/second or so.
- If you like TEXAS 0.1, send me encouraging words, ideas, or other
- contributions to keep me going further on it! (And contact me if you
- want copies of all the source code for my XFCNs, at nominal cost.)
- TEXAS has evolved out of my earlier Indexer/Browser programs during
- the past year. I use it to think with and to remember items from the Mac
- Tech Notes, from various online discussion groups, etc. The more info you
- put into it, the better it gets (until you run out of disk space)!
- Mark^Zimmermann science@nems.arpa [75066,2044] CompuServe
- 9511 Gwyndale Dr.
- Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-565-2166
- USA
-
- - P.S. - To get a copy of the source code and the TEXAS stack by mail,
- send a couple of bucks to me, along with a disk and a self-addressed,
- stamped envelope ... my son will dup it for you.
-