Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is another gap (from the same point of view) on > unix systems: lack of a powerful free-form database. > Relational, structures packages are too slow to use, I > can't spend so much time in filling data. That is > matter for an organization, even free like PubChem. > What I need, is to fill words, paragraphs, even an > entire paper, into a record, having a powerful boolean > search to retrieve in seconds through thousands of > records. I can even quickly set fields on the flight. > I could write books useful for the amount of data > through my extensive databases, constructed day by day > with minimum effort. Though, I have to use it through > wine. I hope one day someone will start such a project > for unix-type systems.
Maybe I'm showing ignorance but what you describe sounds more like an indexing search engine rather than a database. If so, maybe the "htdig" package would be useful. With some helpers you can index DOC and PDF as well as text-based formats. It then provides a web based search front-end. -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
