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- NAME
- waisindex - Indexes files
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- SYNOPSIS
- waisindex [ -d index_filename ] [ -a ] [ -r ]
- [ -mem mbytes ] [ -register ] [ -t type ] [ -export ]
- [ -nocat ] filename filename ...
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- DESCRIPTION
- waisindex creates an index of the words in files so that
- they can be searched quickly (see waissearch). The index
- takes about as much disk space as the original text. It
- also creates a new source structure named index_filename.src
- if none exists.
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- OPTIONS
- -d index_filename
- This is the base filename for the index files.
- Therefore if /usr/local/foo is specified, then the
- index files will be called /usr/local/foo.dct etc.
- The index should be stored on the local file sys-
- tem of the machine running waisindex. It works
- over NFS, but it is much slower.
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- -a Append this index to an existing one. Useful for
- incremental additions or updates. This will only
- add onto an index, so that if a file has changed,
- it will get reindexed, but the old entries will
- not be purged. Therefore, to save space, it is a
- good idea to reindex the whole set of files
- periodically.
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- -r Recursively index subdirectories.
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- -mem How much main memory to use during indexing. This
- variable will have a large effect on how fast
- indexing is done.
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- -register Register this database with the directory of
- servers. You are encouraged to register data-
- bases, but only ones that will be consistently
- running. The directory of servers is available to
- anyone that is on the internet or can phone in.
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- -t type This is the format of files that are handled by
- waisindex. It is easy to parse a different for-
- mat, but that has to be done by changing the
- source (ircfiles.c). To find out the list of
- currently known types, execute the waisindex com-
- mand with no arguments and it will list them.
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- -export This causes the resulting source description file
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- to include the host-name and tcp-port for use by
- the clients. Otherwise the file contains no con-
- nection information, and is expected to be used
- only for local searches.
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- -nocat Inhibits the creation of a catalog. This is use-
- ful for databases with a large number of docu-
- ments, as the catalog contains 3 lines per docu-
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- filename filename...
- These are the files that will be indexed according
- to the arguments above. To insure the files are
- registered in the filename table correctly, it is
- advised that these be full paths (beginning with a
- /). If the database is to be used from a machine
- other than the machine on which the index is
- created, this should be a machine-independant
- path.
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- SEE ALSO
- waissearch(1), waisserver(1), waissearch-gmacs(1), xwais(1),
- xwaisq(1)
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- Wide Area Information Servers Concepts by Brewster Kahle.
- Brewster@think.com
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- DIAGNOSTICS
- The diagnostics produced by the waisindex are meant to be
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- BUGS
- It temporarily takes twice the space it needs for an index.
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