#Public domain text?
17-Mar-93 19:36:39
Sb: #43219-#Public domain text?
Fm: Samuel Feldman 70403,432
To: Frank/Lisa Richards 76354,15
Frank,
Viewer is a Microsoft product. It's what they've used to build Cinemania, the
MS Developer's CD, and Encarta.
It DOES have full text indexing, using their own search engine, and it is
royalty-free. It's based on the Windows Help paradigm, where you have "topics"
containing text, bitmaps, hotspots, etc. Searching seems to be very fast
(looking at their demos).
Where it falls short is in UI support. If you need to do your own UI, you have
to write a DLL. And of course it has no database support.
— Samuel