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*}>We have had a few requests for a certain type of software
*}>but would like to get a broader view on what people
*}>maybe looking for, hence this mail.  We'd like to find
*}>out the type of software people would like to use, and
*}>what sort of features they would want to see.

A powerful indexing search tool would be nice.  Maybe something that
even drops in to various other programs, either with OpenDoc or in some
other way.  The idea is to create an index of words used in files which
is much smaller than all the files themselves, and lends itself much
more quickly to boolean, proximity and other such operations.
Naturally, such a program would have to read all the common
wordprocessor formats, and probably a few other file formats for good
measure (DBF's, spreadsheets, etc.).

There are several programs to do something similar, mostly not OS/2
native.  But things like the WordPerfect indexer do not read a lot of
non-native file formats.  SearchManager/2 is supposed to do this sort of
thing.  I supposedly have a limited license for it included with DevCon,
but was unable to install the included version after several sincere
attempts, so am unable to gather much enthusiasm for it.  Anyway,
SearchManager/2 has apparently been dropped as an end-user product,
instead being targetted for developers wishing to include the technology
in their own products.

Yours, Lulu...

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