Nowadays "AltaVista Search Personal eXtension" can be downloaded
for a free 30 day trial from:
http://palomar.altavista-software.com/vcdownload/vcpromo1download.asp
I see that the there is now also a new Win95 version besides NT and Alpha.
Cheers
Ed
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At 04:50 PM 7/27/97 +1000, you wrote:
>At 01:04 AM 7/26/97 -0700, Ed wrote:
>>Every time I delete rainbowfish list menages from my computer I wonder about
>>the information content of such a rainbow fish FAQ list.
>>
>>I wonder if some one has kept rainbowfish list messages for a long time.
>>How long has this list been in existence. If such a rainbow fish
>>archive does exist how many mega bite is it.
>>
>>There is a wonderful search program called "AltaVista Search Personal
>eXtension"
>>This is a "dictionary" type of search engine. That is after the dictionary is
>>created from all the words in a local hard drive, word searches over the
>>entire data base, which could be huge, are almost instantaneous.
>>Evaluation trial copies of this program were free downloads.
>
>Ed, I have been after something like this for a long time! :)
>
>Can you tell me where to get it?
>
>Regards, Andrew
>_________________________________________________________________
>Frex the Castor Dragon aka Andrew Boyd - frex at macrae.com.au
>All other things, to their destruction draw,
>Only our love hath no decay;
>This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
>Running it never runs from us away,
>But truly keeps this first, last, everlasting day. (John Donne)
>
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