Online Review: Volume 11 Issue 6

News

US Court rules that Bell telephone companies cannot supply information. In a move to prevent the Bell Operating Companies from monopolising the information services industry in…

Cost and know‐how — the ‘Matthew effect’ in information retrieval

Magdeleine Moureau

The cost of online bibliographic searching depends on how it is done. What is paid is the means and not the result. Yet there is no correlation between the price of the means and…

Selection criteria for communications software

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Microcomputers with communications software are replacing the older ‘dumb’ terminals for online access to databases on remote computers. Summarised, a microcomputer with…

Utility programming with Rexx

John Rutherford

Librarians and information specialists are commonly faced with problems related to the transfer and exchange of data. As intermediaries between information producers and…

BOOK REVIEWS

Charles Citroen, Martin White, David Raitt

MIDS Search Aids. Part I: Vendors. Part II: Databases. Part III: Database index. Compiled by A. Labuschagne & S. Rossouw. South African Medical Research Council, 1986, 204 pages…

TopDOS: Aid for hard disk navigation

Justine Roberts

TopDOS can be a useful improvement to standard DOS software, providing many significant aids for navigating among hard disk files. For some novice personal computer users TopDOS…

FYI 3000 Plus: For searching large files

Carol Hansen Fenichel

FYI 3000 Plus retrieves information from documents in ASCII format. Ease of input, ability to handle large files, depth of indexing and low cost make this an attractive package…

4‐1‐1: For locating documents on hard disk

Margaret Hentz

The 4‐1‐1 software package provides directory assistance by helping users to find specific documents stored on a hard disk. The package indexes and files documents, protects…