topic Re: Swish-E Knowledge Required in Operating System - OpenVMS

Swish-E Knowledge Required

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:22:19 GMT

I've been looking for a method of searching PDF files, and is a topic I've raised on these groups before.

I think Swish-E is perhaps an answer to my problem, but I'd like to confirm this with someone already using it on VMS.

Ideally, I'd like to know :-

- roughly how it works
- what technologies it uses, i.e. Perl/Apache
- how easy it is to install and configure
- can it index/search PDF files

Any help would be appreciated.

Rob.

Re: Swish-E Knowledge Required

Volker Halle — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:44:19 GMT

Rob,

there is also ht://Dig, ported to OpenVMS Alpha by Martin Vorlaender:

http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/htdig/

It can also index PDF and DOC files

Volker.

Re: Swish-E Knowledge Required

Robert Atkinson — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:09:07 GMT

Anyone else?

Re: Swish-E Knowledge Required

Martin Vorlaender — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:39:40 GMT

Rob,

if you don't find anyone here, have a look at the newsgroup comp.os.vms. Jean-Francois Pieronne (I think he ported SWISH-E) lurks there.

cu,
Martin

Re: Swish-E Knowledge Required

Ian Miller. — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:46:31 GMT

JFP has a web site
http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/jfp/
with contact details.