The Debian package archive lists something called "perspic". I haven't used
it myself, but from the description in the Debian archive, it sounds like it
might be what you want.
Here is what "apt-cache show perspic" reports about it:
> Perspic is a tool for the study of documents that change
> infrequently if at all, e.g. sacred texts, ancient texts of
> historical interest, etc. Perspic build a fully indexed and
> compressed version of the original text files. Word search
> results are summarized by line. Selecting a given line opens
> the full text about the given word. Other features include
> dictionary definition of words, scanning of word derivatives,
> and saving selected quotations with their accompanying
> attribution.
>
Hope this helps. Good luck.
At 03:01 PM 5/12/00 -0400, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
>Anyone know of a freeware/open source concordancer/indexer that I can
>download for linux/unix?
>
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