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- From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Gopher search capability
- Message-ID: <6808@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:10:30 GMT
- References: <7907@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Nov19.015617.1781@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- In article <1992Nov19.015617.1781@news.nd.edu>, mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu (Dan
- Mandell) writes:
- |> At the risk of sounding really stupid, how does one set up gopher to search
- |> for a keyword in a directory or file (or would this require scripting
- |> something like a wais search). We have been experimenting with gopherd
- |> running
- |> under unix/hpux and have the basics working...but so far I have not been
- |> able
- |> to provide more than simple file retrieval. How would I set up a search for
- |> a
- |> specific keyword in a set of documents in one directory? I was under the
- |> impression that gopher had built in search capability.
-
- Basically you need to waisindex the files in the directory and set up a gopher
- link of type 7 to the index created. You should look in the manual page for
- gopherd for examples on how to do this.
- (of course this requires having the WAIS sruff and that your gopher is
- built with WAISINDEX defined)
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- Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
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