From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 00:09:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA23214 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com (root@copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA23201 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by copernicus.iafrica.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA25233; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:08:50 +0200 (SAT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:08:49 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Ben Wern cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW Server Search Engine In-Reply-To: <3.0b33.32.19961008115931.006ba4dc@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: X-URL: http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ X-Alternate-Address: khetan@uunet.co.za X-Alternate-Address2: kg@iafrica.com X-Alternate-Address3: gjjkhe01@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za X-Alternate-Address4: khetan@chain.iafrica.com X-Comment: Telkom sucks huge! X-IRC-nick: chain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Ben Wern wrote: >I'm looking for a good search engine, capable of indexing .html, .txt, and >MS's Office file formats. AltaVista Personal (Beta) seem to do a good job >locally, but we're looking for something that will run on a UNIX based >server. Any recommendations? Although quite a few people like the Excite search engine (http://www.excite.com), I prefer ht://dig. You can get it from http://htdig.sdsu.edu. You need to work on it a bit, though. Unatr it, and you'll see that it comes with it's own perl, which you need to get rid of. Copy /usr/bin/perl to that directory. I tarred it up again, and it worked fine. Check it out at http://www.iafrica.com/iafrica/query.html --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org] UUNet Internet Africa [0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com]