From: Martin Vorlaender [martin.vorlaender@pdv-systeme.de]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:47 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Announcing ht://Dig 3.1.5 for OpenVMS

ht://Dig is "a system for indexing and searching a finite (not necessarily
small) set of sites or intranet. It is not meant to replace any of the many
internet-wide search engines."
(Quoting from the FAQ at http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html)

An early adopters kit of my port of ht://Dig 3.1.5 to OpenVMS is available
at ftp://ftp.pdv-systeme.de/vms/htdig-3_1_5-vms.zip (5.7 MB, includes source
and documentation). An installation guideline is in the README.VMS file.
It has been tested with WASD HTTPd 7.1.1 and cursorily with CSWS 1.1.

While this kit already is fully functional, I'd like some feedback before
I go on working on it.

The port was developed on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1 using Compaq C V6.4-008,
Compaq C++ V6.2-016, and MMS V3.4-3. On this occasion: Many thanks to
DECpaq and DECUS/Encompass for the OpenVMS Hobbyist program.

Enjoy,
  Martin

P.S.: Is there a way to set the LRL attribute *after* writing (i.e.
      just before closing) the file? A file gets created by one program
      (Stream_LF, LRL 32767), and then SOR$ted by another program -
      which devours time and disk space. As a workaround, I inserted
      a call to CONVERT which renders the file as (LRL less than 100)
      which helps the SOR$t (much).
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