Now I'm confused... dtSearch is a windows app. Is there a Mac/Unix version
available that you are using?
Once upon a time Apple had a product called AppleSearch. I think I might be
one of the few souls who ever bought it. I think it used to come with
AppleShare IP... The primary technology I assume is now used in Sherlock.
However, AppleSearch had the ability to translate and index content of
multiple file types including MS-Word, etc.. Like Sherlock, the indexing
was done on a scheduled basis, so new additions wouldn't be found. Perhaps
you could look into that... If it's of any use...
On a related note, has anyone tried using Perl & AppleEvents to use Sherlock
as a search engine for personal file sharing?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sending several requests simultaneously etc.
>
>
> Perhaps I did not make myself clear enough. I have a database
> containing records referring to MS-Word/Excel etc. documents
> located on a remote machine. Each record specifies the
> document's title, size, and location on a network. Since my
> database can't index the contents of those documents, I must
> rely on dtSearch (a text, pdf, MS-Word indexer, running on
> W...) to do that. My goal it to let users enter keywords in a
> form (e.g. document category = 'MS-Word' and document
> contains the word(s) 'LACOSTE'),
> process that form in a CGI, query the database for records
> belonging to the 'MS-Word' category, query the dtsearch web
> server for documents containing the word 'LACOSTE',
> consolidate the data, and display the results in the user's
> browser. At other times, I may be querying 5 or 6 different
> sources of data (DBMSs, websites), simultaneously.
>
> Someone on the list suggested that I use the
> LWP:Parallel:UserAgent module, and this seems like a good
> module to use to solve my problem. I am open to other
> suggestions, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philippe de Rochambeau
>
