Everhart, Glenn
From:	fredm3047@halcyon.com
Sent:	Monday, April 05, 1999 7:33 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	ANN: swish-1.2.1-vms-1 compatible with Purveyor websearch 2.0
O.K. orkers, cow or otherwise:

I found swish-1.2.1 at Roadkills R Us (www.rru.com) and did the minimally
necessary hacks to get it to work with Purveyor's webindex 2.0.

Chiefly:

o Changed the INDEXHEADER to "WebIndex format 2.0" (why?? what did
  they change that required a format rev?)

o Modified indexadir so that it strips versions from VMS file specs.

Known bugs/features:

o It doesn't recursively search directories successfully because it doesn't
  return subdirectories to VMS in a format that VMS recognizes. I consider
  this a propitious accident of fate that obviates me from needing to implement
  a [+/-]R switch.

o You'll need to monkey with your ReplaceRules because it internally
  passes VMS file syntax instead of a un*xified flavor.

o You won't want multiple versions of files in the directories you
  index. Think about it. Hrmmm, well actually I suppose you could use
  older versions for extended clues, if you didn't mind multiple entries
  in the index... weird.

o You'll still want to visit
    http://www.rru.com/meo/useful/www.html
  and download the full distribution. The saveset at Halcyon doesn't
  include docs, etc. and believe me, you want them. Many more switches.
  I'm looking for a new ISP (I have prospects, thanks. This is not a
  solicitation for UCE.). Now if there's a VMS-friendly site that wants to
  carry the full distribution, let's talk.

Point your browsers at

  http://www.halcyon.com/m3047/swish/

The saveset includes an .EXE which ran today on AXP/OpenVMS 7.1. Why
wouldn't it run tomorrow? I would expect it to, but hey. Recordsize when
creating the saveset was 32256 (the default for a saveset on disk) IIRC...
if you don't know how to use SET FILE/ATTR, don't even think about it!!!


Thanks to GrayMatter Software (www.graysoft.com) for their forebearance in
letting me use one of their machines. Other than that and the fact that
their site is now indexed with it, they don't know or care about any of
this; don't pester them, although polite thankyous or cash grants would I
suppose be welcome. Geez, just buy their software. :-p

I sent e-mail to RRU letting them know about it. Can't find a valid and
verifiable contact point for EIT.

CHOW TIME!!!

--

Fred Morris
fredm3047@halcyon.com <-- must put I-ACK on subject line to reply at this
address