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Re: Glimpse




On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Alex Shnitman wrote:

> > Have you ever looked into the httpd'serror log file???
> 
> Surpirise! - Yes. Why do you ask? The error wasn't related to the httpd at 
> all. It was just that the aglimpse script returned 0 results, whatever I 
> searched for.

this is a bug in the perl program that launches glimpse with the wrong
options. when i checked it (long ago) it missused the 'case insensitive'
option, and set it on when the form had it off, and vice versa.

read the perl-part sources, you'll find your answer there..

> 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.

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).

guy


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