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Re: Glimpse



At 06:43 PM 08-08-96 +0300, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Alex Shnitman wrote:
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>> I guess you were right, but I have already rm -rf'ed it all, it doesn't 
>> even compare to Harvest.
>
>oh, yes it does. unless you want to make indexing of several or
>remote sites, or want to make a small index of compressed, postscript and
>archived files, harvest is an overkill to your machine. ofcourse, it's
>much more configurable, unless you can code in perl. note that havest
>requires more processes and memory resources - a brocker(spell?) and the
>other one (i forgot its name), both running in memory, so you actuallyhave
>two copies of the indexes in memory - unless i completely misunderstood
>the documentation and the processes.

You mean the Broker and the Gatherer... Yes, they are really more
resource-hungry, but yet I like the fact that it's highly configurable and
comparing to glimpseHTTP, it actually /works/.

>
>besides, your lovely harvest uses glimpse as its search engine, unless
>you installed wais seperatly (or does harvest now come with wais inside as
>well? last time it didn't).

Sure it uses glimpse, and if you would have read my original posting you
would notice that that's exactly what I said - glimpse alone works,
glimpseHTTP which is glimpse's own interface to the WWW, doesn't.

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