PC-Browse        utility/file scan/hypertext
Find Lost Files in the Hard Disk Wasteland
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Quicksoft, publisher of the popular shareware word processor
PC-Write, announced today it is shipping a pop-up file scan and
hypertext tool for the IBM PC that lets you view files, find
lost files, and search in multiple files or multiple drives for
a given word or phrase. For example, you could use the program,
PC-Browse, to find all files containing a word string; PC-
Browse can show each file with the word in context and list all
matching files.
 
Quicksoft reports PC-Browse's Lookup feature can find files
with sorted records within 1.1 seconds in a 2 megabyte file,
giving you quick on-line access to records in a database. You
can search any file with one marked Lookup word per page and
with Lookup words sorted in ASCII order with this method, the
company reports.
 
With its hypertext linking, you can use the program to cross
reference pieces of information by flagging the words. You can
also use that feature to set up on-line cross references for
reference manuals, telemarketing scripts, on-line help, and
decision trees. In nonresident mode, you can use PC-Browse to
automatically execute a program file as you follow a link to
it.
 
PC-Browse runs on the IBM PC with 60K bytes of free RAM; with
EMS, it takes about 3K from the DOS 640K limit. Like PC-Write,
PC-Browse is shareware.
 
Price: $49.
 
Contact: Quicksoft, Inc., 219 First Ave., #224, Seattle, WA
98109, (800) 888-8088 or (206) 282-0452. On BIX, join the
'pc.write' conference.
 
                              --- Stan Miastkowski
 
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