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FREEWARE: SM/2 AddOn for IBM SearchManager/2 Updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steffen Siebert)
Sat May 16 13:08:44 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 16 May 1998 10:01:00 -0400
From: siebert@logware.de (Steffen Siebert)
Reply-To: siebert@logware.de (Steffen Siebert)
Reply-to: siebert@logware.de (Steffen Siebert)
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New Release: SM2ADDON for IBM SearchManager/2
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I've updated my SearchManager/2 AddOn DLL, which adds some important
features to IBM SearchManager/2:
- Support of RMAIL files *NEW*
- Support of HTML files
- Support of gzipped files
- Files can be ignored by file-extension
- Format of some specific or all files in a directory can be
specified using a special file
- Contains complete source *NEW*
The DLL is free (but of course you need SM/2 to use it), the latest
version is always available from the SM2ADDON home page at:
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~siebert/sm2.html
Some Frequently Asked Questions about the AddOn and their answers
are located at:
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~siebert/sm2faq.html
I've also uploaded the program to hobbes.
Visit my home page at http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~siebert for information
about other OS/2 programs written by me.
What is new?
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06.05.1998:
* NEW: Files with extension ".shtml" are treated as HTML.
06.04.1998:
* NEW: Support for RMAIL files (aka Babyl Format) used by GNU Emacs
to store mails and news.
SM2AddOn treats files with extension .rmail like a directory
containing files, where each file correspond to one mail.
* NEW: Release of the Sourcecode.
* CHANGED: SM2AddOn uses zlib to uncompress files packed with gzip.
The environment variable SM2_GZIP_FILTER is now obsolete.
(As a side effect it not longer possible to prevent SM2AddOn from
uncompressing gzipped files).
* FIXED: Several minor bugs (most of them only showed for
directories with a huge amount of files).
30.01.1998:
* FIXED: The AddOn didn't work properly on systems with partitions
unknown to OS/2 (e.g. NTFS)
15.07.1997:
* FIXED: EHSLSSFS.DLL crashed if a document could not be opened.
* FIXED: GZIP compressed files and/or HTML files could not be processed,
if the filename contained some special characters (e.g., '+')
What is IBM Searchmanager/2?
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The IBM SearchManager/2 (SM/2) is a very powerful tool for easy
finding a document which you remember being on your hard-drive, but
have absolutely no idea, where it is or how it's named.
Just think of it as if you can use AltaVista to search your
hard disk (in fact, AltaVista has released a similar program called "My
Computer Private eXtension", but it only runs on Windows 95 and
Windows NT).
Unfortunately the SM/2 is held secret by the IBM marketing and even
support is hard to get (don't bother to search the Internet for fixes,
just write to the support-staff on Compuserve, Forum IBMDES). At least
there is some product information on IBM's WWW pages:
http://www.software.ibm.com/data/search/eyxn0mst.html
--
Steffen Siebert
siebert@logware.de
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