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Search Page
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Overview
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The Search Page is where you enter the keywords for the files you
are looking for, and where you receive the results of your searches.
After you are well connected to the network, you enter your
searches, receive results, select one or more files, and download
the files.
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Appearance
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Search Results List |
This list shows you all of the results which have been returned
by your searches. The file name, along with its size, the speed of
the responding host, and the host's IP address are reported.
These are the columns displayed
Search |
The original set of keywords you entered.
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QoS |
This is the quality of the server. The quality of the server
is measured based on the operating system, connection speed,
ability to receive incoming connections, and number of hops.
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File Name |
This is the name of the file as reported by the host. Directory
names are removed from the display.
Portions of the file name which match your keywords are hilited
in blue. Only the first matching keyword found is hilited, not
all of them.
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Size |
The exact file size, in bytes, as reported by the responding host
is displayed here.
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Speed |
The speed of the responding host is displayed in bits per second.
This speed is configured by the user, and not measured by the program,
so the actual speed may vary.
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Version |
The vendor and version number of the software returning the search
results, if it can be determined.
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Uptime |
The length of time since the server was started.
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Host |
This is the IP address or computer name of the source of the file.
IP addreses that fall in the private IP address range are
displayed in red. This usually means that a push download
will be required to get the file.
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Web |
Indicates whether or not the remote host has enabled the Web Server
feature. Only enabled Web Servers can be browsed through the Browse
Web Site menu item.
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If the file is drawn in grey, this means you have a file with exactly the
same name and size in one of your shared directories. If the file is
drawn in red, this means that you have a file with the same name, but
a different size, in one of your shared directories. A file which has been
selected for download or completed downloading is drawn in green. Sorting
on the file name will group these categories, and alphabetize within the
groups.
You can select a file by left clicking in the list. You may select
more than one file by holding down the control key when you click.
By right clicking in the list, you have the option to download
currently selected files, or to clear the list.
Double clicking a file in the list will queue it for downloading
and switch you to the downloads page.
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Search Menu |
Right clicking in the search list produces the search menu. This menu provides
the following options:
Download |
Initiates a download request for the currently selected items. You
may select as many items as you wish from the list.
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Browse Web Site |
If the remote host has activated the Web Site feature, this will
bring up the default browser to the server's home page. The home page
usually has a listing of all the available files, so this can be useful
for browsing everything a host has to offer.
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Clear List |
Removes all items from the search results list. This does not affect
current searches, so new items may continue to appear.
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Search Keywords |
This is where you type in your search keywords. Searches on the Gnutella
network ignore differences between upper and lower case characters.
Any non alphabetic or numeric character is usually ignored by
most hosts. You do not need to enter the extension of the file you
want to find; However, if you were interested in search for all
files of a particular type you could enter the extension without the
period. For example, to search for all music files, enter "mp3" into the box.
For incoming and outgoing searches, BearShare requires that all
keywords exist in some part of the file name to consider the file as
a matching file.
Pressing Start submits your search to the network. Pressing Add will
add another search to all of your active searches. Pressing Stop will cancel
all of your active searches without clearing the list. When there are
search results in the list, and you stop the search, the Stop button changes
to the Clear button. Pressing the Clear button removes all search results
from the list.
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Search Preferences |
You can enter the minimum speed of hosts that should respond to
your search, and also specify a minimum size of the files you
would like to find.
This can be very useful if you are looking for certain types of
large files, like movies or complete albums. This can also be
used with lower numbers to filter out small, useless files.
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Search Results Indicator |
This area shows you the number of searches active,
the number of files that are in the search results list,
and an animation providing feedback that your searches are active.
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