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From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
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Howdy!

I use htDig from sdsu as mentioned in another posting. Since you are
using Apache it should work fine (it likes to work on http docs) as long
as everything you have on localhost is an html document. 

If this is not the case, (you have text files you do not wish to mark
up with html) then Isearch works on everything (text and html) you have
on your server. Get it from ftp.cnidr.org.

I stopped using Isearch due to some problems in linking resulting
documents. This was laziness on my part and *not* an artifact of the
package. I didn't want to sort out what changes were necessary.

Both systems compiled "out of the box". I'm *not* a programmer either.

If I were you I would try them both.

John

On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Living In Madness wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I am looking for a search engine that will work on FreeBSD. I use EWS 
> (the free excite engine) on a NT systems that I administrate.  There 
> is a bsdi version of EWS that I have tried to use without success.  When I 
> went back excite, they specifically stated that they do not support 
> the FreeBSD platform.  So, while the EWS works for my NT setup, it 
> does not for my  Apache on FreeBSD and  I need several large document 
> directories on this server to be searchable.
>  
> I have looked at alot of the FreeBSD sites in the FreeBSD Gallery and 
> didn't find any that had something of this nature.  Well, that is not 
> entirely true.  Sony Japan did, but there was no reference to the 
> kind of engine being used.  I figured it was customized and I do not 
> have that kind of resource ($$$).
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Are there any resources 
> of this nature available???
> 
> TIA,
> :)mary
> 
> 
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