The Search Engine
The search engine is an offline, fast and dirty, interrogator of large text files supporting multiple searches on single files or whole directories for up-to four key words or phrases, simulating hyper-text associations.
When searching commences, a window slides down the document. Successful matches are highlighted in the center of the window. When the document is organized according to some discernible pattern of sections or chapters, the window advances by chapter. You can easily toggle between the two modes.
Having searched and located 'something;' invariably
there is a reference to something else. Call-up
another Search Criteria Window
(binoculars's icon)
to locate that other item, when finished return to
where you started.
Searching is accomplished without modifying the source documents. Most hypertext viewers require that document file be pre-programmed manually to establish hypertext links. Legal Searcher accomplishes the same effect by using the ‘binoculars’ to make the hypertext associations, thereby eliminating the need for preprocessing.