Re: Zyindex ( non zywrite question)

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Can you compare dtsearch with Lotus Magellan? I've been using
 Magellan for years and it seems to do a good job of indexing.
 Mind you, if one is allergic to DOS, then it may not be accept-
 able.

 M.W. Poirier
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Norman Bauman wrote:

> P.S. the good news is that when I use dtSearch to index my XyWrite files on
> a modern PC (even my 1998 Pentium) it only takes 20 minutes, not all night.
>
> P.P.S. If you use dtSearch, you have to delete or at least compress the
> old index file every so often, before you build a new index. I didn't think
> of doing that, and the index files just grew and grew until they took up my
> entire hard drive. I was sure I'd have to buy a new computer until I
> examined my files in a shell program and saw those 10MB index files.
>
> P.P.P.S. I wrote an article about text search programs for Law Office
> Computing years ago, which is why I know about ZyIndex and dtSearch. You
> can read it on my web site.
>
> Norman
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