Re: [tlug] Re: tlug-digest Digest V2006 #28

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "David" == David Riggs <dariggs@example.com> writes:

    David> It seems likely that there is something to do this with,
    David> somewhere? Of course I expect the index to be bigger than
    David> the data, but whats a gigabyte or two when you are
    David> searching a canon?

Not everybody realizes that, though.

FreeWAIS sounds like the thing.  It understands proximity searches
(ie, two strings X words apart).  If you tell it that every UTF-8
character is a word ... but you'll end up with indexes 10-20X as big
as your text, I'm afraid.

Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> (IIRC) is the guy to ask.

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