Gregory Hernandez wrote: > > I am writing a webpage system for a genealogy library. It will not be > on-line to the internet. It will do two things for the library. Reduce > shelf space; and help in introducing researchers to the use of web based > systems and how to use them. > My problem, I am unable to do a "search" of all the files, as you would > on an on-line system. I am stumped as to how to accomplish this. > Any ideas out there? I assume you are reducing your shelf space through elimination of a card catalog, not through elimination of reference texts. You can use HTML without going onto the internet. You refer to local files rather than URL's. There is a program out there called something like ged2html. It takes a GED file and generates a set of linked HTML files that work just like they were on the internet. The problem is that you have to have one GED file to generate the whole thing. It would probably be possible to generate a set of HTML files for each of your GED files and then write your own HTML file to link them all together. The search problem doesn't fit into this mold, however. For that you need some sort of database system.