Re: What replaces glimpse?
On 03 Sep 2001, Andras BALI wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > Htdig seems to be for html only.
>
> To be a bit more precise, it can index files that can be retrieved
> using the HTTP protocol. The core program can index only HTML and
> plain text files, but you can use external parsers for any type of
> files (eg. msword, pdf, postscript). And you can always make your
> files available through HTTP by using web server software.
>
> > Namazu didn't work for me - kept producing error messages in
> > Japanese!
>
> There's a tutorial at <http://namazu.org/doc/tutorial.html.en> and a
> manual at <http://namazu.org/doc/manual.html.en>.
>
> > I got the swish++ deb package but it didn't install the binary - a
> > bug in the package on testing?
>
> The package contains the following binaries:
>
> bali@auric:~$ dpkg-deb -c /debian/ftp/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_5.1-0.1_i386.deb | grep bin/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-07-13 06:27:44 ./usr/bin/
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 91804 2001-07-13 06:27:44 ./usr/bin/search++
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 154684 2001-07-13 06:27:44 ./usr/bin/index++
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2536 2001-07-13 06:27:42 ./usr/bin/httpindex
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 5200 2001-07-13 06:27:42 ./usr/bin/searchc
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 75612 2001-07-13 06:27:44 ./usr/bin/extract++
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1179 2001-07-13 06:27:42 ./usr/bin/splitmail++
> bali@auric:~$ md5sum /debian/ftp/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_5.1-0.1_i386.deb
> 9e8681bda1367582915ff95990a35b57 /debian/ftp/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_5.1-0.1_i386.deb
>
> Read the index++(1), extract++(1) and search++(1) manual pages for
> information on using swish++.
>
> Regards,
>
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>
>
Many thanks for this information - very helpful. I looked for swish,
swish++ and search but didn't think of search++ (I realise I should have
looked at the package itself).
Regards.
Anthony
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