From: Mark Daniel [mark.daniel@wasd.vsm.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 9:35 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Altavista search engine for OpenVMS?

For any interested an in-development kit of SWISH-E indexing and search
package refered to elsewhere in this thread has been placed on the WASD
download page in the BETA area

  http://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd/

Please refer SWISH-E port queries to Jean-François Piéronne
(jfp@altavista.net).

Jean-François PIÉRONNE wrote:
> 
> System@nospam.com wrote:
> >
> > In article <rdeininger-2205012307470001@user-2iveats.dialup.mindspring.com>,
> >
> > Robert Deininger <rdeininger@mindspring.com> writes:
> > >
> > >Marc Krellenstein, CTO of NorthernLight, spoke at today's AlphaServer
> > >Diamond Forum.  NorthernLight does sell their indexing and searching
> > >software to corporate customers, and it does run on (only) VMS.  They can
> > >index html or just about any other data format.  No idea what it costs.
> > ---8<--
> >
> > Thank you all for your responses (and sorry for the stupid anonymous address.
> > Our policy does not allow forum postings under a Corporate account).
> > I will check and evaluate all of the responses.
> >
> > Does this mean that noone around developped a more powerful search tool than
> > the DCL Search facility? I am surprized.
> >
> 
> I have successfully port SWISH-E on OpenVMS.
> 
> SWISH-E is a tool for indexing files, there is filter for HTML, XML,
> postscript, GIF, and many other formats.
> 
> More information can be found on http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/
> 
> My port is integrate in the developement version of swish.
> Daily snapshots are at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:4444/swish-daily/
> which
> should be getting rather stable -- but considered a development
> version since changes are stil being made.
> 
> For example i have indexed all the OpenVMS, Rdb,... documentations
> 
> A library is build so it is easly to integrate it into an other program.
> 
> Mark Daniel, the author of WASD, has buid a CGI program (SWISHESI) to
> query a SWISH-E dababase.
> 
> You can find a demonstration on http://StarLet.DeltaTel.RU/
> 
> My port is currently partial: only local files are indexed, the http
> part use a script PERL ans i haven't all the modules.
> 
> > I just copied the FREEWARE CD v4 onto a VMS disk and browsed through it.
> > No more success.
> >
> > Now, a question:
> > Assuming you take over a system management position and the previous folk has
> > left very far away without easy ways to communicate, what would you do to
> > know
> > what is where on your brand new cluster system?
> >
> > $ type/page [*...]*.com on all disks?
> >
> > SM
> >
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