Re: htuml2txt.pl in Webglimpse 1.7.1

[Christian Vogler <cvogler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>]

Hello Golda,

> We can give you access to the "commercial" version in exchange for these
> fixes, we are planning to change "commercial" to "contributor" and make it
> available to paying OR contributing users, who make fixes or features.

that would be great!

> Thanks again, looking forward to your changes. You can e-mail them to me or
> upload anonymously to tucson.com, in the incoming directory.

I had planned to send them last night, but I ran into some
incompatibilities with different lex versions. I am almost done resolving
them, but I will probably end up providing two different files. One will be
for flex, and the other one will be for AT&T lex. If possible at all, the
ruleset should be compiled with flex (which is much faster and more robust
than AT&T lex), but this might not be feasible for everyone.

I also have a patch for the makecron file. It seems to me that the call to
glimpseindex in makecron should provide the -z switch to enable the filters
during the indexing phase, as well. In my experiments, adding the -z switch
yielded another speedup of a factor of 2 for some searches. 

- Christian