TITLE

        The A-Kwic Indexing System

VERSION

        2.00

COMPANY

        Starbound Enterprises

AUTHOR

        David W. Lowrey
        dwl10@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Internet)
        dlowrey  (BIX)

DESCRIPTION

        The A-Kwic Indexing System provides tools for performing
        rapid keyword searches of user data.
        
        Applications for A-Kwic would include:
           * Indexing contents of CD-ROMs.
           * Indexing the contents of software archives, such as 'aminet'.
           * Indexing any collection text, such as audio or video collections.
           * Allowing keyword searches of customer records, or other business
             related data.
           * As part of a "customer support" toolset, allowing keyword
             searches of "Bug Reports" or "Fix Databases".
        
        The A-Kwic system has two components, the database loader, and the
        database searcher.
        
        The database loader, LoadDB, reads user created input records, and
        scans these records for keywords. It then builds the database files
        for use by the database searcher. 
        
        The input records, which LoadDB reads, contains information such as
        a record's title, lines that will be keyworded, lines that will
        appear in the record, but will not be keyworded, and line to specify
        additional keywords, that do not appear in the record.
        
        Sample programs are provided, written in ARexx or C, that create
        LoadDB input files from both Fish & Aminet CD-ROM content
        listings.
        
        Once a database has been created, it can be searched using the
        A-Kwic command. This program prompts the user for keywords, and
        searches the database for matches. Searches are extremely fast,
        due to the way LoadDB organizes the data.
        
        Multiple keywords can be specified for a search. The keywords can
        be "ANDed" or "ORed", and grouped using parenthesis.
        
        If any matches are found by the search, the user can choose to
        view the matching record's titles. The titles are displayed in
        a scrolling listview. The user can choose to view a specific
        record by double clicking on it's title.
        
        Both LoadDB and A-Kwic run from either the CLI, or the workbench.
        A-Kwic supports being launched from Project icons, so that
        an A-Kwic database can have it's own icon, and will invoke A-Kwic
        if double clicked.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

        The A-Kwic system requires OS 2.04 or higher.

HOST NAME
        aimnet

DIRECTORY

        ????/????

FILE NAMES

        A-Kwic2.00.lha    xxxxx bytes

PRICE

        A $10.00(US) ShareWare fee is requested for private use. Commercial
        use requires registration with the author, and a suggested $100.00
        support fee.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

        This release of the A-Kwic system is freely distributable.
        Commercial use requires prior registration with the author.
        Copyright 1993,1994 by Starbound Enterprises