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glimpse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mkgray@MIT.EDU)
Sun Jun 19 09:25:13 1994
From: mkgray@MIT.EDU
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 09:24:51 EDT
I installed glimpse and glimpseindex in outland for suns and decs. (I didn't
do rs6k's cuz it didn't build cleanly and I didn't feel like messing with it.
I'll get to it eventually, if someone else wants to do it, go for it)
Glimpse, which stands for GLobal IMPlicit SEarch, provides indexing and query
schemes for file systems. The novelty of glimpse is that it uses a very small
index -- in most cases 2-4% of the size of the text.
It makes a good alternative to WAIS. It's useful for doing things like
indexing your homedir to make it easy to find things. For example:
glimpseindex ~ # construct the index
glimpse string # to search for string
It's remarkably fast and useful. The man page is available in hypertext form
at:
http://baskerville.cs.arizona.edu:1994/glimpse.html
Enjoy.
...Matthew
