Index searching

Keyword searches on documents are handled by a special script, index_search.exe. This script processes the search using special files associated with the document that must be created separately.

These special files, suffixed with .idx and .sel, are created by the VMSINDEX program, which is distributed separately.

The demo index

The indexdemo.idx and indexdemo.sel files distributed with the server are a combined keyword index of all HTML files in the /www_root/documents/ directory. Searching for a keyword on this document's index is therefore effectively matching keywords against all the files in the /www/ directory.

David Jones, Ohio State University