Re: Search engine?

Re: Search engine?

[Earnie Boyd]

>Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 16:52:33 -0500
>From: Derek Young <derek@biddersedge.com>
>To: ataylor@cs.ucsd.edu
>CC: "John F. Kolen" <jkolen@typhoon.coginst.uwf.edu>, 
gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: Search engine?
>
>Adam Taylor wrote:
>
>> Actually, I didn't.  You're right, it doesn't come back with many 
hits,
>> and none from the mailing list.  But the mailing list archives _are_
>> searched.  A better example would have been:
>>
>> +ncurses +host:www.cygnus.com
>>
>> which comes back with ~70 hits, many from the mailing list archives.  
I
>> think 'curses' just doesn't occur in the mailing list archives as a
>> word. i.e. set of by whitespace.  This is by using the engine at:
>>
>> http://www.altavista.digital.com/
>>
>> Adam
>
>Altavista and the other big search engines only revisit a site about 
once a month or
>so.  If they have any info from the mailing list archive at all, it's 
bound to be
>fairly old.
>
>The best solution would be to install something like Excite For 
Webservers
>( http://www.excite.com/navigate/ ) on www.cygnus.com.  It's a free 
product, and could
>reindex the whole site every day.  I've played around with it a bit and 
it seems
>fairly easy to use.
>

Free to use as long as you advertise.  Also, no sources.

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Re: Search engine?

[Derek Young]

Adam Taylor wrote:

> Actually, I didn't.  You're right, it doesn't come back with many hits,
> and none from the mailing list.  But the mailing list archives _are_
> searched.  A better example would have been:
>
> +ncurses +host:www.cygnus.com
>
> which comes back with ~70 hits, many from the mailing list archives.  I
> think 'curses' just doesn't occur in the mailing list archives as a
> word. i.e. set of by whitespace.  This is by using the engine at:
>
> http://www.altavista.digital.com/
>
> Adam

Altavista and the other big search engines only revisit a site about once a month or
so.  If they have any info from the mailing list archive at all, it's bound to be
fairly old.

The best solution would be to install something like Excite For Webservers
( http://www.excite.com/navigate/ ) on www.cygnus.com.  It's a free product, and could
reindex the whole site every day.  I've played around with it a bit and it seems
fairly easy to use.

-- derek


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Re: Search engine?

[Adam Taylor]

Actually, I didn't.  You're right, it doesn't come back with many hits,
and none from the mailing list.  But the mailing list archives _are_
searched.  A better example would have been:

+ncurses +host:www.cygnus.com

which comes back with ~70 hits, many from the mailing list archives.  I
think 'curses' just doesn't occur in the mailing list archives as a
word. i.e. set of by whitespace.  This is by using the engine at: 

http://www.altavista.digital.com/


Adam

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John F. Kolen wrote:
> 
> On Nov 3,  1:10pm, Adam Taylor wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Search engine?
> > Why can't you just do stuff like, e.g.
> >
> > +curses +host:www.cygnus.com
> >
> > at Alta Vista's site?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> 
> Did you try this before posting it to the mailing list?  If you did, you
> would have discoverd that AltaVista produced three hits (on 11/4/97):
> 
> 1. Xconq Home Page
>        Xconq is an Empire-type strategy game, where each player contests for
>        domination of a simulated world. However, unlike most empire-building
>        games, it...
>        http://www.cygnus.com/~shebs/xconq.html - size 2K - 18-Sep-97 - English
> 
> 2. UNIX apps successfully ported with GNU-Win32
>        UNIX apps successfully ported with GNU-Win32. To give you some idea of
>        the power of the Cygwin32 API, we've put together a list of some of the
>        useful...
>        http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ported.html - size 6K - 6-Sep-97 -
>        English
> 
> 3. GUILE ML archives by subject
>        GUILE ML archives by subject. About this archive. Messages sorted by:
>        [ date ][ thread ][ author ] Other mail archives. Starting: Sat 20 May
>        1995 -...
>        http://www.cygnus.com/ml/guile/subject.html - size 115K - 22-Sep-97 -
>        English
> 
> I might be blind, but I didn't see any GNU-win32 mailing list hits.  Maybe you
> have a different AV search engine?
> 
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Re: Search engine?

[John F. Kolen]

On Nov 3,  1:10pm, Adam Taylor wrote:
> Subject: Re: Search engine?
> Why can't you just do stuff like, e.g.
>
> +curses +host:www.cygnus.com
>
> at Alta Vista's site?
>
> Adam
>

Did you try this before posting it to the mailing list?  If you did, you
would have discoverd that AltaVista produced three hits (on 11/4/97):

1. Xconq Home Page
       Xconq is an Empire-type strategy game, where each player contests for
       domination of a simulated world. However, unlike most empire-building
       games, it...
       http://www.cygnus.com/~shebs/xconq.html - size 2K - 18-Sep-97 - English

2. UNIX apps successfully ported with GNU-Win32
       UNIX apps successfully ported with GNU-Win32. To give you some idea of
       the power of the Cygwin32 API, we've put together a list of some of the
       useful...
       http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ported.html - size 6K - 6-Sep-97 -
       English

3. GUILE ML archives by subject
       GUILE ML archives by subject. About this archive. Messages sorted by:
       [ date ][ thread ][ author ] Other mail archives. Starting: Sat 20 May
       1995 -...
       http://www.cygnus.com/ml/guile/subject.html - size 115K - 22-Sep-97 -
       English

I might be blind, but I didn't see any GNU-win32 mailing list hits.  Maybe you
have a different AV search engine?


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Re: Search engine?

[Adam Taylor]

Why can't you just do stuff like, e.g.

+curses +host:www.cygnus.com

at Alta Vista's site?

Adam

-----
Alejandro Quiroz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Your site would greatly benefit from a search engine.  I'm having
> problems finding information that I think would be easily obtainable
> through a search engine.
> 
> For example, I have an application that I need to port from UNIX to
> NT.  This application uses libcurses.  Is libcurses available in GNU-
> Win32?  What kind of support do you provide for X/Motif applications?
> 
> Is it possible to mix and match POSIX and Win32 system calls in the
> application?
> 
> Finally, does gcc support 64-bit integers on GNU-Win32?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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Re: Search engine?

[raf]

>> Your site would greatly benefit from a search engine.  I'm having
>> problems finding information that I think would be easily obtainable
>> through a search engine.

yes, imagine my dismay at forgetting the name of the CYGWIN_TTY variable,
having deleted all the mail items that mentioned it, foolishly thinking
"oh, it's all in the archives", and spending an hour looking for it there!

>Anyone know of an easy WWW search engine I could install?  If it's easy
>to set up and maintain, I'll look into it...

>alta vista (and probably all the others) have "personal" versions of their
>search software that can index the contents of your hard disk. i don't know
>if it applies to a single web site but it might.

>also, sybooks.sybase.com uses third party(?) search software called 'dynaweb'.

you could look into these.

does anyone know of any others?

failing that, if you send me the sources to the cgi programs that are
currently handling the archive, i'd be willing to add searching to them.


seeya,
raf

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RE: Search engine?

[Michael Czapski]

Hello Geoffrey,

You could have a look at :
http://www.eit.com/software/swish/
and
http://www.eit.com/software/wwwwais/

I used both together on a couple of projects in the past.  Work very well, 
are easy to set up and don't need upkeep apart from periodic index 
generation to include new material.  For a person of your unquestionable 
expertise, a piece of cake.

PS> Thanks for the great work you guys are doing there (that includes 
Sergey and all other contributors).


Cheers ...
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On Sunday, November 02, 1997 2:46 PM, Geoffrey Noer [SMTP:noer@cygnus.com] 
wrote:
> Alejandro Quiroz wrote:
> >
> > Your site would greatly benefit from a search engine.  I'm having
> > problems finding information that I think would be easily obtainable
> > through a search engine.
>
> Anyone know of an easy WWW search engine I could install?  If it's easy
> to set up and maintain, I'll look into it...
>
> It might also be worth looking into installing a FAQ-O-Matic.  I don't
> know how easy that would be to deal with either though.
>
> --
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Re: Search engine?

[Geoffrey Noer]

Alejandro Quiroz wrote:
> 
> Your site would greatly benefit from a search engine.  I'm having
> problems finding information that I think would be easily obtainable
> through a search engine.

Anyone know of an easy WWW search engine I could install?  If it's easy
to set up and maintain, I'll look into it...

It might also be worth looking into installing a FAQ-O-Matic.  I don't
know how easy that would be to deal with either though.

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Re: Search engine?

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi Alejandro,

>Hi,
>
>Your site would greatly benefit from a search engine.  I'm having
>problems finding information that I think would be easily obtainable
>through a search engine.
>
>For example, I have an application that I need to port from UNIX to
>NT.  This application uses libcurses.  Is libcurses available in GNU-
>Win32?  What kind of support do you provide for X/Motif applications?

libcurses builds out of the box with Cygnus' gcc.

>
>Is it possible to mix and match POSIX and Win32 system calls in the
>application?
>
>Finally, does gcc support 64-bit integers on GNU-Win32?

AFAIK no.

>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Alejandro Quiroz

Bye.
Michael.
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Search engine?

[Alejandro Quiroz]

Hi,

Your site would greatly benefit from a search engine.  I'm having
problems finding information that I think would be easily obtainable
through a search engine.

For example, I have an application that I need to port from UNIX to
NT.  This application uses libcurses.  Is libcurses available in GNU-
Win32?  What kind of support do you provide for X/Motif applications?

Is it possible to mix and match POSIX and Win32 system calls in the
application?

Finally, does gcc support 64-bit integers on GNU-Win32?

Thanks,
 
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