Mistral is an information retrieval system designed and produced by the French company CII in the 1970s, which quickly became known internationally.
[2] This version was still rudimentary and was designed for a time when disk space was very expensive, and therefore used magnetic tapes and only sequential processing was allowed.
[3] Paradoxically, this success led to the gradual end of Mistral's life.
Finally, the use of this software by a documentation center seemed complex, and products that were less efficient but easier to access, and in particular Texto, multiplied.
The software package has a set of tools for managing or reorganizing these files.