[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Sat Sep 27 09:00:58 EDT 2014


On 2014-09-27 12:48:13 +0000, John Reagan said:

> On VMS, I would now feel limited by what SEARCH offers (even after Guy 
> tried to enhance it).

Ayup.   Between something like OS X Spotlight search, and grep and 
other command-line tools, and what's available in some of the scripting 
languages, and Solr or Sphinx, the VMS SEARCH mechanisms and (lack of) 
libraries are very limited and limiting, and performance is glacial.


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