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- User Functions
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- The following functions are available to a user of SearchManager/2 to
- perform a search task and to retrieve documents.
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- A.) Select a search server
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- A user selects the server that is to be used for processing a search request.
- The following servers may be offered on the OS/2 Workplace Shell (WPS)
- for selection:
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- 1. One local SearchManager/2 server
- 2. One or more remote server(s)
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- A search request deals with one server at a time only.
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- B.) Specify the search request
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- A Text Search Query can consist of :
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- 1. Words, phrases, word fragments masked with wildcards
- 2. Boolean operations (and, or, not)
- 3. Proximity operations (same sentence, adjacent)
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- Wildcards (character mask, word mask) are provided for
- front, middle and end masking.
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- A Search Progress Indicator informs about the progress of a search
- request, and allows the user to interrupt the search.
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- A search request may be restricted so that only documents of certain
- selected document groups are searched ("scope" for a search request).
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