[3116] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
BETA: File Hound 0.2 for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Gaalswyk Aaron)
Thu Jul 3 06:57:22 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 03 Jul 1997 04:05:00 -0400
From: Gaalswyk@webster.spacestar.net (Aaron Gaalswyk Aaron)
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Reply-to: gaalswyk@spacestar.net
Submitted by: Gaalswyk@webster.spacestar.net (Aaron Gaalswyk Aaron)
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June 30, 1997
I am pleased to announce the availability of the first public beta of File
Hound for OS/2. What is it? File Hound is a document indexing and retrieval
system capable of rapidly searching hundreds or thousands of documents using
various search criteria. Unlike the "Seek and Scan" and "Find" applets
included with the operating system, File Hound builds an index of significant
terms in documents, allowing it to scan thousands of documents within a couple
seconds. And the index overhead is only 5% to 8% of the input documents!
File Hound has user-friendly interfaces for indexing, searching, and viewing
search results. It also has notebook-style configuration interface for dozens
of customizations and server management. It is multithreaded and thread-safe,
so you can search and update the index simultaneously.
File Hound is designed to operate across a network, allowing multiple clients
to access a server at the same time, but it works just as easily on a
stand-alone computer.
Some of the more enticing features are:
* Search documents for words, exact strings, patterns, or
proximity between words.
* Restrict searches to groups of documents.
* File filters display popular document types.
* Launch user-defined applications on found documents.
* Save search results.
* Drag and drop with Desktop.
* Maintain multiple indexes.
* Customize indexing rules, stop words, and excluded documents.
* Automatic periodic indexing and re-indexing.
* Multithreaded indexing and searching.
* ZIP file support.
* Transparent access to remote server objects across a network.
* Remote administration of server objects.
* Restrict access using password authentication for multiple
access levels.
* Future toolkit support for building your own client tools,
file filters, and file store facilities.
For more information and updates, check out the File Hound web site:
http://www.spacestar.net/users/gaalswyk
You can download the current version at
http://www.spacestar.net/users/gaalswyk/download.html
Besides the File Hound web site, the software has also been uploaded to
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu and ftp://ftp.cdrom.com. Version 0.2 is in a file
named flho0020.zip.
Aaron Gaalswyk
gaalswyk@spacestar.net
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