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Sounds to me that what you are trying to generate is beyond the normal
index. Looks like what is commonly called a concordance. Problem with
a program like that is more what to leave out than what to include.
How do you determine the small modifying words such as 'a', 'the',
'or', 'and', etc.. And how do you determine what is important? Or what
makes up a key phrase? Still it is not an outrageous requirement. I
did a quick websearch using Yahoo, and found a site that makes what
they call a "Text Database" called (of all things) Concordance. Might
be worth checking out. Not sure if its what you want but would be
worth a look.

http://concord.lax.primenet.com/

Hope this helps.

Myrrdin

On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 01:28:48 GMT, textmaker@hotmail.com (L Metcalfe)
wrote:

>
>Hello all!
>
>I've searched everywhere on the net for this without success. If you
>could help me, I'd be hugely grateful. 
>
>I'm looking for a program that generates an index on a lot of text,
>not just searching for all individual words and small phrases (as Alta
>Vista does) but large strings of words making up paragraphs and entire
>letters. 

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>
>
>Unix would be helpful (it can prolly be able to achieve this on one
>command line?) or an MS-DOS or Windows (3.1, 95 or NT) utility would
>be fantastic! 
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>textmaker@hotmail.com