Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!umd5!uvaarpa!mcnc!ecsvax!gas From: gas@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Guerry A. Semones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Looking for TSR DB... Summary: Instant Recall -> memory resident DB Keywords: Database, TSR, etc. Message-ID: <5330@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 30 Jun 88 16:02:03 GMT References: <4553@killer.UUCP> <963@gethen.UUCP> <1286@percival.UUCP> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 25 Instant Recall is a memory resident free-form database (it can be ran from the DOS prompt and not be made resident). By free-form, I mean that the DB has no structure. When you load IR, you get an empty window or record. There is also a menu line at the top or bottom, of the screen (I can't recall). The empty window/record is very much like a word processor. You enter information in whatever way you like. It is not structured like a regular database. You could in essence call it a "hyperdata" type of system. Each free-form record stands alone and you create a database of these free-form records and can search for text throughout the database. Pop in a line on a record that says "Change oil in car in June 1988" and later search the database for "oil" and "car" and you get all records that have those words in them. It received numerous reviews in the PC Mags, most principally the series on databases from PC Magazine. A friend of mine uses it in his department to manage textual histories of various artists and works of art (I believe thats the application). If a free-form database that's memory resident is what you need, this might bear looking at. -- Guerry A. Semones BITNET: drogo@tucc.BITNET Information Services USENET: gas@ecsvax.UUCP, semones@dukeac.UUCP Duke University My views are despairingly mine only. Talent Identification Program "We ain't gifted, we just work here."