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SWISH-E

What is SWISH-E?

SWISH-E is Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced. With it, you can quickly and easily index directories of files and search the generated indexes.

SWISH was created by Kevin Hughes to fill the need of the growing number of Web administrators on the Internet - many of the indexing systems were not well documented, were hard to use and install, and were too complex for their own good. The system was widely used for several years, long enough to collect some bug fixes and requests for enhancements. In Fall 1996, The Library of UC Berkeley received permission from Kevin Hughes to implement bug fixes and enhancements to the original binary. The result is SWISH-Enhanced or SWISH-E, brought to you by the SWISH-E Development Team. For more information about it's strengths, see SWISH-E Features. The SWISH-E release also includes AutoSwish, a Perl program that makes setting up, indexing, and maintaining your SWISH-E indexes a breeze. To see it in action, go to the AutoSwish Demonstration.

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Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Hewlett-Packard Company
Originally by Kevin Hughes, kev@kevcom.com, March 11, 1994.
SWISH-E is distributed with no warranty under the terms of the GNU Public License,
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
Public questions may be posted to the SWISH-E Discussion.
Document maintained at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/Manual/WhatIs.html by the SunSITE Manager.
Last update September 9, 1998. SunSITE Manager: manager@sunsite.berkeley.edu