Re: About free-form database
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' --
>> there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you
>> describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis.
>>
>> Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist.
>
> I don't agree that this constitutes "abuse" of debian-science. This
> list is for discussion of tools for scientific development, and a couple
> of long threads have dealt with typesetting tools suited for science.
> If typesetting is on-topic, why not data management?
>
> That said, I'll echo the recommendation to use apt-cache search.
The OP should consider one of the many systems (beagle, tracker,
namazu, ...) to maintain an index of a filestore. Many will attempt to
extract terms from document formats (.tex. pdf, .doc, html, etc). Also,
agrep is designed to improve on grep for searching text stores.
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Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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