Hello Technoslick, Thursday, May 29, 2003, 6:32:02 AM, you wrote:
T> So, I wish to ask again for any suggestions and advice on a general T> purpose free-form database that doesn't have the learning curve of T> Perl or SQL. The need if for me to maintain an off-line, portable T> database of bits and pieces of whatever I have learned or found. I T> want it to be something like askSam, but it doesn't have to be as T> powerful. Flat is fine, though I would like to be able to create T> and use hyperlinks within each document. I also don't want to make T> this manual (like using HTML or XML locally.) I am also VERY fond of such tools. I used askSam for many years, but a few versions had terrible reliability problems. Everything is stored in a proprietary data base, and that got corrupted a few times. AskSam offered to try to recover the data bases, but there was a lot of proprietary info in there that was subject to strict non-disclosure, and I couldn't let them do it. After losing, permanently, hundreds of valuable documents, I looked for alternatives. I found dtSearch, a file indexing and search tool, with built-in viewers for many different doc types. I used it in parallel with AS for several months, and decided I liked dtSearch enough to abandon askSam. dtSearch keeps all files in original formats, so I can't lose them (assuming I make regular backups). Main disadvantage is that dtSearch is expensive. Despite that, I'm not sure I could live without it. :-) I have been trying to find a similar tool for Linux. I am hoping for MUCH lower cost. :-)) Any suggestinos MUCH appreciated! dtSearch has a Linux beta, so it will be coming. -- Thank you, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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