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8 June May 1999. GoSWISH ver 1.48
GoSWISH: A Search Engine Utility For OS/2
Abstract: GoSWISH is a free search engine for OS/2 Web Sites.
GoSWISH consists of the SWISH "web indexer", a
a set of programs to automate it's use, and a
set of scripts to provide a front-end to
WWW clients.
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The Simple Web Indexing System for Humans (SWISH) is a fast (and free)
multi-platform program for generating & searching indices of the contents
of a set of files. SWISH is designed to be used as "keyword search" tool,
and will return that output can be incorporated into WWW output.
SWISH does the hard part of indexing (extracting words from selected
documents and organizing them in compact fashion), and of searching
this index for specified keywords. Although not terribly difficult
to use, it is a bit idiosyncratic. By providing a simple, web-based
interface to SWISH, GoSwish can help the typical (i.e.; lazy and/or
overworked) web administrator use SWISH to keep his search tools
up-to-date and easy-to-use. In addition, GoSwish makes it easy to
create, and display, descriptions of the files that are found during
a keyword search!
To use GoSwish you should have an OS/2 web server that understands CGI-BIN.
Especially useful is a web-server that can handle POSTed CGI-BIN requests
(since the set of options can get rather long).
Even better, GoSwish can also be run as an addon for the SRE-http freeware
web server for OS/2 (see http://www.srehttp.org for details).
For installation and usage instructions, please see GOSWISH.DOC.
Notes and late breaking news:
* GoSWISH can work with SWISH versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.
SWISH 1.3,which is shipped with GOSWISH, is the most powerful, but is a tad slower.
In addition, GoSWISH can use the rxSWISH dynamic link library; which
is somewhat faster then use of a GoSwish executable.
If you decide to use an older version of SWISH (say, to support indices you've
built with an older version), please see the user configurable parameters
section of GOSWISH.CMD.
* The version of SWISH included with GoSWISH (SWISH ver 1.3.1.a)
no longer requires the EMX run-time package.
* The full SWISH package (which requires EMXRT) can be obtained from
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/Ports/OS2/
* A SWISH GIF image:
Included with the these files is SWISH-E.GIF -- a nice animated gif you
can use to tell the world what's powering your search engine. Check out
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E for more SWISH images.
* Advanced Users Notes
** After installation, you may wish to examine GOSWISH.CMD -- it has a
few user configurable parameters.
** For those running GoSWISH on busy servers, you can reduce the priority
of the various SWISH and GoSWISH processes by using the EXEC_MODIFIER
parameter in GoSWISH.CMD in conjuction with a priority setting
utility -- such as the "SPE" priority setting program.