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- jughead is an acronym for:
- Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
- jughead head can act as a search engine on a prebuilt table
- that allows searching through menus, or can create a linear
- view of menu space. When running jughead you can specify
- what part of gopherspace you want search tables built or a
- linear view thereof.
-
- When running as a search engine, jughead listens out a port
- for a connection and a search string. The search string can
- contain the boolean operations "AND", "OR", and "NOT" between
- words. If no operator is specified between words, it is an
- implied "AND" operation. For example either:
- "University of utah" or "University AND of AND Utah" will
- yield all gopher entries with "university" and "of" and "utah"
- in the title. The case of the letters is irrelevant. Now
- suppose you enter the string "university of utah NOT gopher".
- This will return the same information as the first search
- except for those entries containing the word "gopher".
- Currently there is no way to search on the words "AND", "OR",
- or "NOT"; nor is there a way to break an expression into a
- group of smaller expressions. jughead also supports partial
- word searches, where the asterik '*' is the wildcard character.
- The wildcard character cannot be the first or only character
- in a search word, and all characters following the wildcard
- are ignored. For example: both "*", and "*opher" are not
- valid, while "go*r" will return all items that have a word
- beginning with "go" in the title. Note that the 'r' following
- the asterik is ignored in the search. The maximum number of
- entries returned is 1024 unless you use a special command
- described at the end of this document.
-
- All words are broken into smaller words if any word contains
- a whitespace character or one of the following characters:
- !"#$%&'()+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
- Thus if a menu item has the name "A sample.file", this is
- broken into the three words "A", "sample", and "file. So if
- your search statement is: "sample.file some_thing-else", your
- query gets broken into the statment:
- "sample AND file AND some AND thing AND else", which will only
- return those items with all these words in the menu.
-
- jughead supports some special commands, where each special
- command must be preceeded by a question mark '?', and are
- listed below:
- ?all what
- ?help [what]
- ?limit=n what
- ?version [what]
- where 'what' is a standard search string, anything enclosed
- in square brackets is optional, and all special commands must
- be preceeded with '?'. And each command is described below:
- ?all what returns all the hits on 'what'.
- Otherwise items will only be returned
- it there are fewer than 1024 items.
- ?help [what] Gives you this document and any
- optional hits on 'what'.
- ?limit=n what Returns the first 'n' items on 'what'.
- ?version [what] Returns the version of jughead and
- any optional hits on 'what'.
- Only 1 special command is supported per query, and if any
- syntax error is reported as the title to this document.
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