Re: Using Glimpse for a FTP server?

[Golda Velez <gvelez@tucson.com>]

Sorry for the delay in response!

Unfortunately, I can only answer affirmatively to one of your questions,
and even that is not exactly what you want:

	glimpseindex does support the -f switch, which allows you to index only
files modified since the last index was created.  Probably by touching all
the .glim* files, you could hack this into indexing only files newer than a
certain date.

My only suggestion for indexing filenames would be to use yet another
filter, that adds the filename into the text of the file.

For the other questions, you are doing things the best way I could suggest.

--G

At 08:56 AM 12/14/99 +0100, Frank Elsner wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>We like to use Glimpse/WebGlimpse for indexing a ftp server.
>Did anybody use Glimpse for indexing a ftp server content?
>
>Many problems arise in this area:
>
>0. Glimpse / WebGlimpse do not index file names
>
>How can I index the names of files, too. Glimpse
>does only index the contents of a file!
>(I do not like to create an extra file <file>.txt for each
>file named <file> which simply contains the file name ...) 
>
>1. Long-term operations
>
>Files are normally tar.gz- or zip-compressed, to index them,
>a very "long-running" filter must be used.
>How can I index all the files in a tar-archive separatedly without
>really extracting files to a temp dir?
>
>(How can I maintain the relationship to the archived file,
>not to the archive as a whole?)
>
>2. File names to index
>
>There are many different file names to index, e.g.
>
>*.ps
>*.1
>.man
>README
>*.pdf
>*.texinfo
>*.dvi
>*.doc (sometimes Word DOC, sometimes plain text)
>... (and many more)
>- so many, many filters are needed.
>
>3. Index new files only
>
>Does Glimpseindex and WebGlimpse by default
>support a time-stamp indexing, e.g. only
>files newer than a given time-stamp will be indexed?
>
>Any comments, suggestions are appreciated.
>(Or a web site using Glimpse for this purpose?)
>Before I start, I'd like to know not to be the first to try.
>
>Yours sincerely
>Frank Elsner
>
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