DOS era desktop search tool, Lotus Magellan version 2.0, on FreeDOS version 1.3 in VirtualBox
Channel: Martin Vahi
Date: 2023-04-30

Supposedly IBM made it freeware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Magellan

As of 2023_04_30 the binary of this closed source text search tool, a DOS era desktop search tool, can be downloaded from the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191109124704/http://www2.support.lotus.com/ftp/pub/desktop/Magellan/2.x/misc/mg2inst.exe

and run on the FreeDOS

https://www.freedos.org/

The FreeDOS has a package manager,  FDIMPLES, whcih can download binary packages like the Deiban apt and the openSUSE yast can. Part of the FreeDOS software collection is also Dillo web browser, which can be used for downloading the Lotus Magellan binary.

As of 2023_04 the Linux "locate" tool analogues for Windows10/Windows11 might be very practical, specially given their speed. They do not index the file content, only file names, but that is sufficient for quickly finding electronic component datasheet PDFs that include the component type name in the PDF file name. The key advantage of the 

https://www.voidtools.com/
and
http://locate32.cogit.net/

over Windows built-in search is SPEED. Another option that is quite speedy after start-up is the DocFetcher

https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/

which indexes both, file names and fle contents. In 1988 the Computer Chronicles, 18min09s, briefly mentions another text search tool, Gofer

https://archive.org/details/buyersguide_2

which seems to be an open source project in 2023.

https://gofer.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gofer/

A remark about the Lotus Magellan version 2.0 is that in stead of the classical README.txt, it has README.exe, which in 2023 layman's terms is like the README.txt and a read-only-mode textfile viewer two in one. Thank You for reading this comment and Thank You for watching this video.