12.0494 Magellan-like software

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:12:52 +0000 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 494.
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[1] From: George Aichele <gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu> (14)
Subject: Re: 12.0488 Magellan-like software

[2] From: Ed HAUPT <haupt@email.njin.net> (16)
Subject: Re: 12.0488 Magellan-like software

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:55:10 +0000
From: George Aichele <gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu>
Subject: Re: 12.0488 Magellan-like software

>> I am looking for a Windows program that will do the same job that the DOS
>> based Lotus Magellan program did, namely to locate a term in a file, and at
>> the same time (and unlike Windows Find) will show the file itself and the
>> term in context, with a list of other files that also contain the term.
>> These in turn can be looked at from within Magellan. Also Magellan was
able
>> to read ZIP files and many other formats.

I'm not all that familiar with Magellan, but DTSearch does much and maybe
all of this (haven't tried it on zip files). A shareware version is
available at www.dtsearch.com. I'm just a satisfied customer.

George Aichele
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:55:21 +0000
From: Ed HAUPT <haupt@email.njin.net>
Subject: Re: 12.0488 Magellan-like software

grep (unix) and its dos equivalents should do the job. There may even be a
windows equivalent.

Ed Haupt

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