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ZyINDEXTM
Your personal researcherTM
Imagine the ultimate personal computer information retrieval soft- ware of the future. It will find any information you want in seconds-- without your having to set up a data- base or do programming. It will scan a 20 Mbyte hard disk or a collection of floppies and instantly display all occurrences of a name, a product, a phrase, a number, or anything else you need to find. It will save you hours or days of manual searching... The future is here now. It's called ZyINDEX, and it's like having your own personal researcher living inside your com- puter. The result of advanced research in artificial intelligence and information retrieval at the University of Illinois. ZyINDEX breaks exciting new ground in personal computing.
ZyINDEX makes it possible for re- searchers, lawyers, businesses, word processing users. and others, for the first time, to retrieve text information from up to 15.000 existing files...in seconds, with no key words required. ZyINDEX obsoletes-for many uses-a whole class of software called "data- base management systems." Text infor- mation can be searched as is. ZyINDEX can search information downloaded from any information service or created on almost any word processor-Word- Star, WordPerfect. Microsoft Word. MultiMate, DisplayWrite 2 and 3. pis:Write. to mention just a few. No more wading through cryptic file direc- tories or thick printouts to find that memo you sent last year, or those elec- tronic mail messages you saved on Cisk.
You can even use ZVINDEX to fing in- formation in spreacšneets, database files. of stock quotes printed to disk. Again, no lielas, no programming.
Here are some examples:
You're a trial lawyer representing a small software company against a large firm that nas illegally made copies of your client's new soft- ware package. Somewhere in the testimony, stored on your hera disk, there was a state- ment. you suddenly realize, that will win the case.
Cuicay, you tyce: copy w/20 software Instantly, wherever the words "copy" and "software" occur within 20 words of one another. they accear on the screen, Case won.
You're a medica: researcher icoxing for a connection between cancer ang nuclear ¡est- ing. Somewhere on a cisk is a report cown- icadeo from the National Library of Medicine. You type...
cancer AND (nuclear tests OR radiation) And you have vour reference in seconds.
Congratulations. You have been named nead of your company s word processing cepan• ment. Uričnurále:y, you have just deen esked to finc år. oosture memo on oil production in Kuwait or was in Salci Aranie?...some. where or one of those huncreas of diskS.. Don't panic -jus¡ tyce, oil production AND (kuwait OR saudi arabia)
and vouà thè missing memo
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FEATURES
Comprehensive searches create a search request, with any combination of AND, OR, NOT, and WITHIN (WITHIN refers to how far apart two words or pharases can be-up to 30,000 words).
Wild cards, for example: type "micro*" to get (micro-computer, microcomputing, micro-processor, etc.).
• Foreign language characters displayed.
• Mark and save retrieved information
to create a new file.
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Highlights search-words and phrases in retrieved text.
• Online help menus.
• Find Function automatically displays search topic in the retrieved file.
Runs on IBM PC, XT, AT, all 100% IBM compatible PC's, and many other MS-DOS computers.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
• 256K minimum
• Two disk drives
• DOS 2.0 or any later DOS release Ask your dealer to show you how ZyINDEX will find information in your files. Call 800-544-6339 for the
cealer nearest you. ZyINDEX Standard $145. Searches up to 500 files. ZyINDEX Professional $295. Searches up to 5.000 files. Includes "Clean-Up Program."
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ZyINDEX Plus $695. Searches up to 15.000 files. For multiuser systems and "heavy texi-crunching" applications
ZyLAB
Corporation
200 Ees: Ene Street. Chicago, Illincis GCC ** (3121642-2201 • (200) 544-6300 TELEX: 380422 ZYLAS CGO
Covrigni 1968
."[ZyINDEX gives] the user new ways of getting hold of information contained in text files."
"For sheer retrieval power, ZyINDEX is the clear winner."
-BYTE January, 1984
-INFOWORLD May 6, 1985
"[ZyINDEX] lives up to the promise that much computer software makes and that only some
actually deliver..."
-POPULAR COMPUTING March, 1985
"The [Professional] version of ZyINDEX seems to me a package no law firm should be without...I have
seen a $1,400 package that isn't as good..."
-THE LAWYER'S PC January, 1985
"[Zy!NDEX] is fast, effective, and easy to use. It is a worthwhile product for anyone who has a lot of
information to handle."
-PC WORLD October, 1985
"Who Should Buy: Anyone who uses or creates text files as a substantial part of his or her job and wants
to organize them."
-PC WEEK July 10, 1984