Program name:  LOCATE
 
Author name:  James E. Tarvid
              Logical support
              Route 2 Box 73
              Independence, VA  24348
Telephone:    (703)-773-3419
 
Suggested donation:  $20.00 registration + $20.00 per year for support
 
Program description:
 
    LOCATE is a system for finding out which files contain which words.  It
consists of two programs INDEX and LOCATE.  INDEX scans all of the files on a
specified disk and builds an index.  In the case of a hard disk INDEX will
scan all directories and sub-directories automatically and LOCATE will return
full path designations to find the files.  LOCATE uses that index to make a
list of files containing the specified keywords.  The program does have some
limitations.  Length of words which it will recognize must be more 3
characters but not more than 7 (in words which are more than 7 characters long
the extra characters are ignored ie; COMPLICATION and COMPLICITY would be
regarded as the same word).  To avoid this problem LOCATE allows more than one
word to be specified for the search criteria.  To match a file must have both
words.
    There is no manual but The diskette contains numerous text files on
various aspects of the programs.  These files contain plenty of specific
technical information about how the program operates.  An overview of the
technology is contained in "CAFR" and enough instructions to run the program
are contained in "INSTALL", "INDEXOP", and "LOCATEOP".
    These programs will run on any IBM-PC or compatible with at least 128 K of
memory and two disk drives.  The documentation may be somewhat confusing for
the novice user, but program operation is very simple once you find the
instructions you need (hint: try printing the file TESTDRIV, it contains the
best step-by-step instructions)