Subject: perlindex-1.103 available on CPAN/authors/id/ULPFR
From: [email-masked] (Ulrich Pfeifer)
Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:34:59 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

NAME
       perlindex - index and query perl manual pages

SYNOPSIS
           perlindex -index

           perlindex tell me where the flowers are

DESCRIPTION
       "perlindex -index" generates an AnyDBM_File index which
       can be searched with free text queries "perlindex a
       verbose query".

       Each word of the query is searched in the index and a
       score is generated for each document containing it. Scores
       for all words are added and the documents with the highest
       score are printed.

New features: 

        o stemming
        o menu in cbreak mode (save numerous RETURNS)
        o Makefile.PL for installation
        o Now the library is indexed. No need to install the manual
          pages

The index size can be reduced by my compressed int patch for perl. I
get for perl5.002 gamma + tk + libwww + ...:

        -rw-r--r--  1 pfeifer     32768 Feb 19 18:35 index_fn
        -rw-r--r--  1 pfeifer    180224 Feb 19 18:35 index_idf
        -rw-r--r--  1 pfeifer    368640 Feb 19 18:35 index_if
        -rw-r--r--  1 pfeifer     32768 Feb 19 18:35 index_seen

Without the patch index_if will be approximately twice this size.  The
installation procedure will check if the patch is available.

Enjoy.

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