Re: Help Placing Large Database on Net

Okey Ikeako wrote:
>
> Fred Meeker <meeker_at_ba-iplaw.com> wrote:
> >I need to place a large database on the web. The database is ascii text
> >with individual records identified by number. Each record contains five
> >felds and a large text file. The search should return a list of record
> >numbers/record titles which match the search criteria and then be able
> >to hyper-link to the record. The database is about 165 Gbytes of
> >information currently stored on CD ROMs.
>
> I'm not sure, but could one implement a database using PERL
> to do such?

I am not familiar with Perl. I have been looking at text search and retrieval systems such as ZYIndex, CDanswer, pesonal Librarian, etc. Is anyone familiar with any of these? Received on Sun Nov 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CET