[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-27, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> The policy is, you get a group of product records from the 
> manufacturers, and you just plug it in.  There is a rather good reason 
> for this.  Some third party, don't know who, has parts explosion 
> pictures for most of this stuff, and everybody needs to be using the 
> same part numbers, otherwise when someone selects a part from the GUI 
> software, there won't be a match on the distributor's system.  So 
> whatever the manufacturer's set up is used.

So we have established that the date here doesn't come from Random J
Office-Clerk.  Excellent.  :-)

> Part supersuccession (happens very often) would also suffer.

Tell me about 'em.  Supercessions where multiple parts become whole
assemblies or vice versa can be a pain to handle.  Things get interesting
when a manufacturer re-uses a superseded part number and you or your
retailers still have the original part number in stock.

-- 
"Dead stock has a life of its own"            -- Albert the Parts Manager