According to Ahmon Dancy: > After reading the documentation and FAQ, It's not clear to me why one > would choose to or choose not to use the -i option to htdig. Can > anyone give me some insight on this please? Does not using '-i' make > the dig faster? What does htdig do with old database if '-i' isn't > specified?
Yes, not using -i will make the dig faster if you have an existing database. The -i option causes htdig to wipe out the existing database, if there is one, and dig all documents. Without -i and with an existing database, htdig goes into update mode, where it checks all URLs in the database and in start_url, to see if they've changed since the last dig. If they have, or if they're in start_url but not in the database, they're reindexed, and any links in these documents will similarly be rechecked. Generally, checking to see if the documents have been modified is much quicker than re-fetching and re-parsing all documents every time. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
