We don't have to wai t for Apple to deliver.
There are windows programs which will do the same.
The British Library is using one to search a flat file (or a number of files) for info.
It's no new trick.
It's using common sense, at last.
It's using the Document Paradigm.
Gerard
At 01:41 +0200 11-10-1998, Ahmad Risk wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:08:24 +0100, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>
>>[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 13:02 on 10/10/98
>>about "Re: [bhia-g] Sherlock":
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>>>Copernic does soemthing similar to that. Alta Vista's 'search my
>>>computer' can also index your entire drive the same way the search
>>>engine works. It takes ages if you have large data. Not sure if it
>>>can then search online as well. Copernic does.
>>Interesting.
>>So one could have a single file or small group of files for each
>>patient, and yet the speed with which they could be found for
>>disease registers etc would be as good as with an RDBMS. Hmm
>
>Yes! Using key words, and, recently, using phrases.
>
>Ahmad
>P.S. why did you reply to this to gp-uk?
>
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