Re: boolean search

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:30:59PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > > Francesco, > > I, too, would like to archive, index, and search a wide > range of pdf and ps (and perhaps html) documents for > writing and reviewing. > > And, what is the [ ..] action you mention? > > There may be more chanc

Re: boolean search

2006-06-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 18:00:49 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Florian Kulzer writes: > > I would like to have something like that here, but I have arranged to have > > it > > indirectly on unix because I know that unix people are not interested in > > such > > affairs. > > Why do you say that?

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread John Hasler
Florian Kulzer writes: > I would like to have something like that here, but I have arranged to have it > indirectly on unix because I know that unix people are not interested in such > affairs. Why do you say that? Package: estraier Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 920 Maintainer

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Don Montgomery
Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Don Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: boolean search Don: I removed 64, if you mind. The features you describe of that software, I never used. Actually, I prefer the DOS version, which is faster, and it is faste

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Don Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Francesco, > > Any text editor will have hotkey search on case-insensitive character > strings, which allows you to use a text file to store and find > unstructured text data. For ease of use, I especially like the > "incremental search" feature in emac

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
ocs, textfiles, etc. It seems to implement > wildcard and boolean search over the entire archive, while > still offering some way to treat some of the data in a > traditional "fields and records" database mode. > > I don't know of an app like that for any of the *nix

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Don Montgomery
pdfs, word docs, textfiles, etc. It seems to implement wildcard and boolean search over the entire archive, while still offering some way to treat some of the data in a traditional "fields and records" database mode. I don't know of an app like that for any of the *nix. However

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
ncesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Cc: debian_amd64 > > Subject: boolean search > > Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:02:19 -0500 (CDT) > > Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org > > > > What about a boo

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Don Montgomery
un, 18 Jun 2006 18:01:46 +0200 From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian_amd64 Subject: boolean search Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:02:19 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org What about a boolean search application? I mean to

boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
What about a boolean search application? I mean to use it as a free-form personal database, not for internet. Not for a relational database, which is not what a scientists is aimed at to record scientific literature abstracts. It would be useful if records could accept embedded graphics