One of the most powerful features is user defined keys (40) allow favorite files, searched often, just a click away. Your Netscape bookmarks, phone numbers, passwords fall into this category.

As a record keeper, Ferret32 streamlines the process of data taking using append or file generation abilities.

Having a different piece of software for each type of data is a big waste of time. Finding a part, phrase, sentence, phone number, password, bookmark, or Web Site need only be seconds away from the thought! Ferret32 has brought us closer to instant data.

An intuitive interface with simple Drag/Drop Hot key setup makes Ferret painless to use. Ferret redefines the search process by actively involving the user. Who cares what database is which or what field is what data. We don't want to know these details nor do we care about them. What we want to know is if there is any sort of a match that is close. We want the data instantly!

Fifteen years ago, programmers were careful about saving disk space and making database compact. They optimized these to the point that:

• The data structure requires a specific program to access
• The user must learn how to use the tool and how to construct a query.
• Of course, the user has to re-learn all of this the moment the next tool comes along or the data format again changes.

• simple text will never become obsolete
• Simple text will never require special tools
• Computers are fast enough to tolerate a less than optimum data format in favor of ease of use
• Simple text facilitates searching.
• A user and their software is more powerful when they work well together.
• A users tools are more powerful when they work well together - Ferret32 does this very well.

Look at a database example:

Let suppose we have a database of all our customers. George left us a voice mail saying he need to go to LA and need his appointment for March rescheduled. He left his number but he mumbled a bit and all you got was 415-7 x3 xx224. George forgot to give his last name. How long would it take to find the correct entry in the conventional database. In FERRET, you click on CUSTOMERS, type in three search strings: geor 224 and 415 and hit GO. If you had a 166MHZ PC and 10,000 customers this could take about 2.8 seconds.

Ferret32 a seventh Generation powerhouse Finder Program designed to jump start your productivity. Look into files for matching data, text, links, phrases or sentences on your computer or servers! Ferret captures all the matching lines that contained the search criteria in the specified file. Ferret can capture the data, copy or append it to a file, send it to MS Excel®, send it MS Word® or print it. Searching may be recursive or sub searched within the data already found.

Unlike other programs you may have used before Ferret is rich in features but simple to use. You practically don't need to know anything. This would be especially true in a company where an administrator configures the initialization file to point to key business unit and Corporate data.

Ferret's freeware Utilities allow for ease of preparation of search directories for servers.

FERRET32 is a integrated utility featuring custom features and 40 HOT KEYS for frequently used files, like your phone book data, Web Bookmarks, specifications or company database, shipping records, history files. All of these files, including comma delimited files may be searched. Sentence mode search is another mode featuring sentence extraction. As an example, specifying " NOW is " and "GOOD MEN" the program will return all the matching sentences like "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."