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Date: Sun 21-May-1990 21:38:45 From: brinkley@synapse.biostr.washington.edu (Jim Brinkley) Subject: Paragraph Finder (Pfind) I've submitted a program called Pfind, which is now at purdue in pub/next/source/Pfind.tar.Z. It is a program for finding paragraphs in plain ASCII files, where a paragraph is a body of text separated by a blank line. The program allows you to create an index for a database consisting of one or more text files, then to search the database for paragraphs containing words you enter. It is thus an alternative to the Digital Librarian when you need to find words occuring in subparts of files rather than the entire file. I've been using it to find addresses in a file containing names and addresses separated by blank lines, and also for several files containing bibliography entries for the Bibtek program supplied with Tex. Pfind is basically just a NeXT interface to two standard Unix utilities, indxbib and lookbib. The only caveat for using it is that indxbib is not executable in the 1.0 release, so it must be made so by becoming superuser and changing the protection of /usr/bin/indxbib so that it is executable by all users ( run "chmod a+x indxbib" while superuser in /usr/bin). Jim Brinkley
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