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- From: pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt)
- Subject: Indexing man pages (Re: Digital Librarian poops out!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.230326.28986@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
- References: <1992Sep1.151426.24641@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Sep11.081140.1087@glocke.hotb.sub.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:03:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.081140.1087@glocke.hotb.sub.org> frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.151426.24641@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- >asm@eecg.toronto.edu (Anees Munshi) writes:
- >> Can anyone with 3.0 try testing DL under 3.0. The other bug
- >> seems to be regular expression search. It seems that it does
- >> not understand expressions like u*stand, but will do u* and
- >> *stand. Does it have a different regexp syntax, or is this
- >> another bug?
-
- Different from what? Acording to the "standard" Unix regular expression
- syntax (ed, vi, Grep, etc.), you asked for a string starting with 0 or
- or more u's followed by "stand". Use "u.*stand". This is u followed
- by zero or more of any character fo0llowed by "stand".
-
- >There is another bug(?) in DL (NS2.1):
- >If you switch to match prefixes in the preferences it only finds those
- >words that are really prefix => `map` doesn`t match `map` but `maps`.
- >I think this at least counter intuitive.
-
- Hmmm. If I set the match preference to "Prefix", then do a search for
- "Zilog" it brings up the relevant manual pages.
-
- I'm running 2.2 so maybe they fixed this.
-
- Does anyone know the right way to index a bunch of man pages? I tried
- ixBuild with the -fman and it indexed my local man pages but an ixDump
- of the index showed the file type as ASCII. The only way I could
- get them properly indexed was by copying them all to /tmp and doing
- an installman on all of them. This was a big waste since the catx
- directories already existed. It works great now, though.
-
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- Craig Pratt pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu
- Montana State University, Bozeman MT gcp1070@msu.oscs.montana.edu
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