What is CatView?
CatView is an application that provides a user interface to searching
multi-line text files.
Why is CatView useful?
Some text files are lists of items or products that are
separated by line
(ie. pressing 'Enter' after each in a word-processor). Using
this method of creating a text file is a common way to provide
product-lists or catalogs.
CatView enhances and simplifies the searching of such files by
specially catering for this format. Hence, the name "CatView"
- Catalog Viewer
When would you use CatView?
CatView can be used to search a flat-file database, a spreadsheet
(saved as text) or even a CD collection (where each CD is written on a
separate line).
Catalog text files can also be created manually by copying and pasting
from other documents into a text file.
CatView can then be used like it were
a database. This is the principle purpose of CatView - ordinary text
files become searchable databases.
Learn how to start using CatView
Why not use a word-processor to
find words instead?