Jason Romney reports.
Word processing is one of the most common computer uses.
Melbourne barrister and computer programmer, Mr Chris Priestley, has developed an exciting new program called Total Research which will be of enormous assistance to people who need to find textual needles in data haystacks. There are one or two basic concepts that should be understood about text retrieval. We will soon review a new version of Isys for Windows, a text retrieval program which analyses all the text you wish to navigate and creates indexes of the words in those files. This method means that searches are fast. Other programs, such as Gopher and Retrieve It, use a free form text retrieval engine ie they do not makes an index.