Hello Jack, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 2:39:18 PM, you wrote:
>> One of my key programs is DTsearch, a rather powerful search >> engine/viewer. Would you know of a linux program that is >> (hopefully) more powerful, or even comparable? I'd like to find >> one. JC> not sure what you want to do, but: JC> dtsearch makes a version of their engine for Linux. I've talked with them about that. It isn't a program, but just a set of routines that interfaces with their unique data base structures. JC> Presumably it isn't far to a desktop client. It's a long way to the program. :-) JC> swish-e looks great and is on my to-try list. This does look good, and better than any suggestions made when I asked earlier. Thanks. The part that I missed right away when I tried the demo was the ability to do proximity searches ((search or find) [within 25 words of] (script and text)). This is a very powerful capability that I have come to like a lot. The demos also did not like complex nested expressions, and did not do them correctly, although the documentation said it did seem to use regex, which I didn't try. The other thing I like about DTsearch is the great number of formats it can index, and then display in an integrated viewer. I can scroll through 15 different formats, seeing the contents of each one, as fast as I can press a key. In a very large document, the viewer also shows each occurrence of the search word(s), and you can scroll through them from find to find very easily. The integrated viewer is VERY nice. Is there a way to get the output of swish-e to operate as an 'integrated viewer'? JC> ht::dig is kinda lame, but generally works. This was suggested earlier. Not a candidate. JC> if your data is in a database or can get there, finding or writing JC> a search interface from your favorite language is really not hard. Are you suggesting the full DTsearch capabilities are easy to do? If so, tell me more. :-) It would be a very nice addition to open source programs, IMHO. Thanks for the info. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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