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On Friday 19 July 2002 11:48 am, Adrian Midgley wrote:
Is there anything on Windows that's just not got a replacement?Idealist. A free text fully indexed database originally from Blackwell. Very good for random bits of text information, with the capacity to add pictures and some scriptability, but basically just finds what you put in there.
I used to use Idealist years ago to catalogue departmental resources (books, magazines, student dissertations, equipment etc). The programme was available on the student computer network so anyone could access these data. I also used it as a personal scrappad to keep notes on just about anything. Unfortunately the programme did not survive OS upgrades very well (win3.1 to 95/98) and nobody seemed inclined to purchase upgrades for idealist. I eventually found replacements for both these functions. For the departmental resources catalogue, I just write html files and put them where they can be indexed by htdig. With an appropriate search page anyone on the college intranet can once again search our resource catalogue. For my own scratchpad I use zwiki (a wiki which runs on a Zope installation ) - works for me! Both these solutions run on an old P133 - running Linux of course. Tony -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.