Gregory,
I am indeed dealing with an heterogeneous environment : dtSearch on a Wind=
ows NT machine for MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PPT, text and pdf indexing, WebOb=
jects + Perl on MacOSX on a Macintosh. It would be great if dtSearch ran o=
n MacOSX, but unfortunately, porting dtSearch to MacOSX is not dtSearch's =
(the company) main priority.
I have played a bit with Sherlock, but did not find it satisfactory for in=
dexing purposes, for the following reasons:
- content indexing is approximate
- you cannot do complex searches
- it cannot index MS-W/E/PPT documents
- you cannot see the contents of documents
- it cannot be used as a web server
- it is not multi-user
- it cannot index databases (although dtSearch's database indexing feature=
leaves much to be desired -- you need Visual Basic for this -- I ended up=
creating database dumps with Perl which I then had dtSearch index -- )
- it cannot index volumes on a network
- it is not easily extendable or scriptable
- it is slow compared with dtSearch
Philippe de Rochambeau
On July 10th, 2001, Gregory Cranz wrote :
Well I got this from David Thead at dtSearch:
We have a Linux version of =
dtSearch in the =
works but for now it is just a C++ library (a .lib.so file) =
so you would =
need to do some C++ programming to make any use of it. =
Please let me know =
if you are interested in taking a look at the beta.
So, Monsieur Rochambeau - are you writing a new Mac app or are >you deali=
ng
with a heterogenous network environment?
